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Other Men's Flowers
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Comments on language, literature, politics, the arts and almost anything else, but mostly quotations. "I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own" (Montaigne, 1533-1592)
- Added on: Dec 7th, 2004
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Brief but memorable
My initiative in making a telephone call sparked off an unusual encounter I had one night last week. A young Japanese woman answered and asked me to tell her all about myself, which of course I was pleased to do. She was very interested, and it was n...
Selection 23
More recycled posts from 2005:cinemaSome movies get history right, others don'troyalsVox pop on the Prince's nuptialshatsDressing up to bid farewell to the Pope...
Clouds for Christmas
There's still time to get some copies of this for your friends; for anyone who ever goes outdoors and looks upwards it is a nice present; even idiots who don't know their cumulus congestus pileus from their altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus undulat...
The Gang of Ten
I started making comments—friendly, mocking, complimentary, contentious or ribald—on other peoples' blogs soon after I started writing my own. Sometimes I used pseudonyms and then I realised that it would be amusing to link these to blogs which I...
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More recycled posts from 2005wordsA splendid game für 4 PersonenfoodKipper and black pudding? Why not?literatureShy man outsells J K Rowling, Dan Brown.......
Music for magnetic resonance
They had told me that while you are having an MRI scan they can play you music to relieve the tedium; you can choose from their library or bring your own CD. Not fancying Mantovani or Cliff Richard or Songs from the Shows, when I went to be magnetise...
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