January 2012
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 in C minor...
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The Son Sitting
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late school-boys and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the Judge will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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December 2011
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“A thousand glistening umbrellas were tilted over a thousand bowler hats in Piccadilly; the Jermyn Street shops, distorted by streaming water, had become a submarine arcade; and the clubmen of Pall Mall, with china tea and anchovy toast in mind, were scuttling for sanctuary up the steps of their clubs.”
- the late Patrick Leigh Fermor, re-blogged from the Travellers Club newsletter, December...
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ADAM LAY YBOUNDEN a Christmas carol set by Peter...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Who are the 99 per cent?
Obviously there are many possible answers, because the answer depends on knowing more about the question - who are the 99 per cent of WHAT?
But since the question is offered as a slogan, I am genuinely interested to know more about it.
In a democracy, being part of the 99% means that you are in power. From a political point of view, it is not correct that 99% voted for or against any of the...
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“God’s greatest promise to us is not life, but death.”
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“Sex is an action and not an achievement, because it is something you do, not...”
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Tipping Win?
A bigger tip wouldn’t have been funny.
Source: JoeMyGod
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September 2011
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“To speak the truth, I think that people ought to be upset, and if I had a paper I would upset them all the time; I think that life is so important and, in its workings, so upsetting that nobody should be spared.”
(J R Ackerley, in a letter to Stephen Spender, December 1955.)
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Metaphors of litigation and money
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, And weep afresh love’s long since cancelled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: Then can I grieve...
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“Everything else is a fragment but you are the whole”
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“How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, quotation set to music by Steve Reich
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How to be insulting without being rude
Some classic examples of the polite insult from F E Smith KC:-
Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court, Mr Smith? Smith: No, My Lord. I am attempting to conceal it.
Judge: Have you ever heard of a saying by Bacon — the great Bacon — that youth and discretion are ill-wedded companions? Smith: Yes, I have. And have you ever heard of a saying of Bacon — the great Bacon — that a...
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“To be perfect is to have changed often”
– John Henry Newman
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August 2011
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