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The traffic [in Edinburgh] is frightening, to someone coming suddenly from Orkney. I would huddle among a flock of waiting people on the pavement, and then when I saw them beginning to surge across the street, I went with them like a sheep. Alone, I would have stood there till I was a statue.
— Jun 01, 2025 09:06PM
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Jim
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So a writer writes in order to enjoy bread-and-butter and beer. He writes to keep the deadly enemy boredom at bay. He writes because at last it is the only thing he can do, and he can no more help doing it than a spider can help spinning a web.
— Jun 02, 2025 08:56PM
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Life being so brief, and beset with so many difficult and distasteful things, I intend while the breath is in me to eat and drink the things I enjoy. If you wasted time listening to experts, you'd soon wear yourself down to a gray worried wraith.
— May 31, 2025 08:09PM
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For the Orcadians, the winters of war were the worst. There was a strict blackout. Black drapes shrouded every window after sunset. One had to grope and guess one's way along the winter streets by night. Torches were allowed at last, but only a feeble pencil of light fell on the flagstones.
— May 30, 2025 09:10PM
