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Quote of the Day “This continuing edition of the letters has been praised for its detailed scholarship, and indeed its thickets of footnotes tell us mo…
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Quote of the Day ”Only two rules of drama criticism matter. One. Decide what the playwright was trying to do, and pronounce well he has done it. Two. D…
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Have a good weekend!
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Worried about going back to the Office? Watch this nice reassuring Dutch film. (And don’t forget to turn on the sound.) There, that wasn’t too bad, was…
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Quote of the Day “The Metaverse: virtual reality with unskippable ads.” Wendy Liu (via Twitter) Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Teleman…
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Norfolk in August You can perhaps see why I love it there. Quote of the Day ”The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.” Tom Stoppard in …
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Memories of 9/11 Amid the torrent of stuff triggered by the 20th anniversary of the attach, some things stood out, One was this Aperture essay by Lynne…
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Hope you have a good weekend!
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Quote of the Day Novelist Roddy Doyle on being famous in Ireland: “I was waiting at Tara Street Dart station for a friend, and there was a bunch of lad…
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Exit strategy Nice New Yorker cover after the US’s exit from the Afghan maze. What’s the next maze, one wonders? Taiwan? Quote of the Day ”There is no …
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Mirrorscope Quote of the Day “To betray, you must first belong” Kim Philby Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Josephine Baker | Si J’etais…
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The Magpie Mine It’s nice to be back. We spent a lovely week in the UK’s Peak District, a wonderland of rolling farmland, hills and dales criss-crossed…
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