Tuesday, 29 May 2012

One seems to hear the bugles blowing for the Crusades

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[']I rather wish sometimes, Connie,' said Lady Julia meditatively, 'that you were a little less of the grande dame. It's won...
Monday, 28 May 2012

A public-house for each individual inhabitant

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The ideal towards which the City Fathers of all English county towns strive is to provide a public-house for each individual inhabitant; and...
Friday, 25 May 2012

The deceased was a Russian by birth, and therefore excitable

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He did not attempt to disguise his own opinion, which was that the deceased had taken his own life. ... Various motives had been suggested, ...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Satan is real

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Preacher, tell them that Satan is real too. You can hear him in songs that give praise to idols and sinful things of this world. You can s...
Thursday, 29 March 2012

Votaries initiated in the orgies of Dionysus ran about in goat-skins, mangling hounds in Bacchic frenzy

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Accordingly during the whole period of his [Valens'] reign the altar fire was lit, libations and sacrifices were offered to idols, publi...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012

If Keith Richards is running your intervention, you're in trouble

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Keith sincerely feared Gram [Parsons] was doing an unhealthy amount of heroin. It hardly needs saying that if Keith Richards is running your...
Tuesday, 28 February 2012

As objective as a panel of butchers telling us we should eat more meat

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Everyone wants to live what they would see as the good life. Philosophers have had plenty to say about what this comprises, but their answe...