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| Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for the Empire, whose downfall can only be prevented by m...more | |
"I was a music journalist - long interviews, reviews etc for a NY and London companies. Also some embarrassing poetry years ago.
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added a status update: Residents of a Senior Citizens Home running prostitution and cocaine rings. Not every one likes bingo, Coronation Street and a nice cup of tea with a bicky at the 9.00 o'clock news!
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| This is the short and magical fable of Luigi, who is the greatest of all the gondoliers but, sadly, not the most accomplished of singers. It is told through the voice of S. Morgenstern who is perhaps the most talented of all modern fable-spinners, hi...more | |
“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus
― Tacitus
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
― John Gottman
― John Gottman
“The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.”
― Jack Bruce
― Jack Bruce
“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
“I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.”
― Ron White
― Ron White
Comments I want to keep (Select)
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Comments I make that I want to keep usually because they display my brain at work. That isn't necessarily a regular occurence so I need to keep all evidence that I have one and it does.
Power cuts, dead vehicle and the cat sicks up a lizard (Select)
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rant about a very bad day
Rihanna's cousin says... (Nonfiction)
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Me and cockroaches (Select)
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updated Mar 24, 2012 02:41pm
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Three 'adventures' with cockroaches
Catching a Crocodile (Biographies & Memoirs)
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How I learned to catch crocodiles in my bare handies
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