Thursday, 26 July 2012

The Liberals were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests

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The Liberals ... were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce,  to recognise the rights of...
Monday, 9 July 2012

Billy didn't think there would be a blank cartridge in a squad that small, in a war that old

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Billy closed that one eye, saw in his memory of the future poor old Edgar Derby in front of a firing squad in the ruins of Dresden. There w...
Saturday, 7 July 2012

Secret? My God - from whom?

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I wrote the Air Force back then, asking for details about the raid on Dresden, who ordered it, how many planes did it, why they did it, what...
Sunday, 10 June 2012

Because these were people she knew, she refrained from calling them "degenerates" or "infidels"

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When some rich Muslim fa milies in  Ş i ş li and Ni ş anta ş ı  began buying pine trees to decorate and display in windows the way Christian...
Saturday, 9 June 2012

The absolute black of the sky dulled and dimmed

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The absolute black of the sky dulled and dimmed and blanched slowly away, and finally half a dozen daubs of cloud, dull powder pink, sailed ...
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...