Wednesday, 30 November 2022

They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion...
Tuesday, 29 November 2022

I still remember the rather absurd arguments that were held about the calling I should adopt

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I still remember the rather absurd arguments that were held about the calling I should adopt. A suggestion was made that I should become a ...
Monday, 28 November 2022

Immortality for literary productions lasts in any case but a few hundred years

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I think few serious writers, by which I do not only mean writers of serious things, can be entirely indifferent to the fate that will befa...
Sunday, 27 November 2022

When I met him again years later, he still knew every joke I'd used in my debut performance and recited them back to me.

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 [Bob] Monkhouse was a student of comedy who taped every comedy radio show and videoed the debut set of every comic working in television. H...
Wednesday, 12 October 2022

It turns out that the calmer this Hulk gets, the stronger she gets

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It turns out that the calmer this Hulk [She Hulk] gets, the stronger she gets ... the story’s climax involves her whaling the bejeesus out o...
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

its only legible words of dialogue are the few that the dog understands

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One issue is presented from the point of view of Hawkeye’s dog, Lucky: its only legible words of dialogue are the few that Lucky understands...
Monday, 10 October 2022

The Cedar Walk has been planned and planted by someone was never going to see it

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The Cedar Walk has been planned and planted by someone was never going to see it - not him, nor his children, not even his children's ch...