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Foula was chosen in 1936 as the scene for Michael Powell's film The Edge of the World, which depicts the tragedy of such islands with their dwindling populations. Much amusement was caused when mainland newspapers showed banner headlines describing the 'desperate plight' of the cast, cut off by storm for three weeks on the island. To the inhabitants this was a very normal occurance.
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― Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
― Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
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I wonder if all the people who talk so glibly of time-traveling have understood what it means: namely, that past and future ages are just as real as the present. Else there would be no places to travel to. And then what keeps us from time-traveling? Only the human mind, the human consciousness, which is bound down to one tiny bit of time, the present moment. But if we could ever get outside the present moment, we would see the world in four dimensions, the fourth being time. We would see ourselv
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― The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich
― The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich
