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DNF for now

Wiki: "... members whose qualification consists in the ability to pay their dues on time and discuss intelligently the probable guilt of William Wallace or the finer points of the defence of Madeline Smith."

Wiki: "Every day he looked more and more like a drawing by Gillray."

Wiki: "And if you think he could take a little brandy—well, the key of the tantalus is on your master's key chain."

Wiki: "It was said that she had inspired Rossetti to paint his Monna Vanna, and whatever the fashion might be that was how she dressed."

Wiki: "He practised pluralism and simony in a big way..."

Wiki: "...handing him a glass of lúcuma juice."

Wiki: "The dog days, you know..."

Word: "He fitted into my imaginative life, he was my companion of the greenwood, a rival, an ally, an enemy, a friend — I couldn’t be sure which."

1. A wood or forest in leaf.
Also (now archaic) with reference to the forest as a refuge for outlaws, hence to go to the greenwood: to become an outlaw.

Wiki: "Beyond the malpais was a volcanic peak and in the sunrise it was many colors..."

08. The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale, 2 stars. Momma's boy isn't satisfied with married life, becomes a pedophile.
09. The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller, 2 stars. Retarded boy runs a street gang of local children until the war steals them away.
01. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, 2 stars. Criminal throws away his chance at a better life out of spite.

Wiki: "Frankie could act this with powerful realism since seeing All Quiet on the Western Front and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ..."

05. Noah's Ark, 2 stars. Two boys steal pennies at the fair, ride the carousel for free.
06. On Saturday Afternoon, 2 stars. Grumpy little boy watches a failed suicide attempt.
07. The Match, 2 stars. Miserable bastard abuses his family because his favorite team lost.

02. Uncle Ernest, 3 stars. Lonely man starts spending all his money on two little girls he doesn't know.
03. Mr. Raynor the School-teacher, 2 stars. Teacher is a pervert and a tyrant, takes his frustration out on stupid boys.
04. The Fishing-boat Picture, 3 stars. Passive man's wife leaves him, a decade later she visits him for booze money.

Wiki: "They had come to settle in the General’s Palace at Mopu, which was now to be known as the Convent of St Faith."

Wiki: "... and now too you could hear above the pounding of the unshod hooves the piping of the quena ..."


Sanjuanito Irlandes | Traditional Andean Music by Jorge Sangre Ancestral

Wiki: "The cruelty of mankind — and the disgust my contact with it provoked — hurled me from the great cities to the margins of civilization, until I found myself in Chiapas."

Wiki: "David Hockney, on the double portrait: “There is always somebody who looks permanent and somebody who’s kind of visiting.”"



The Ambassadors (Holbein) > Anamorphosis

Books: "Tonight I will make a list of my favorite books, while they are still vivid in my memory. I shall list them in no particular order, because there is no easy ordering of love."

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Transit of Venus
The Black Prince
Mawrdew Czgowchwz

Wiki: "X’s work is like a Grinling Gibbons carving."

Wiki: "So I came to the conclusion that they had given me a helping of sublimate in a little bowl of sauce which had been very well made and very tasty."

Wiki: "“So many good ones; and so many bad ones; that’s what you get for trying.”
— last words of Dutch Schultz "

Wiki: "I made of my apartment that summer a context for my study: curling Hilliard and Holbein prints on the wall, Julian Bream plucking Dowland on the stereo set."


Julian Bream plays Dowland (1987) by grahambop