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April has been a terrible month for bees - rain, low temperatures, big colonies unable to get out of the hives and in danger of starving. I've had to feed all three of my colonies, and they seem to be holding on. Let's hope May is better. Doesn't seem to be so far. The annoying thing is that the oilseed rape is in full flower - enormous fields of yellow all round our cottage - but the bees can'...
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“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence. But it supplies the materials for thought. Also, because it is the only art capable of criticism, it encourages questioning, and self-questioning.”
― John Carey, What Good Are the Arts?
― John Carey, What Good Are the Arts?
“One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.”
― John Carey
― John Carey
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| Bright Young Things: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote - Whole Book Thread | 47 | 27 | Dec 22, 2010 01:41pm | |
| Bright Young Things: High Art vs The Popular | 14 | 20 | May 08, 2011 03:18pm |
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