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::Acquired Taste: This year I will be reading mainly...
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Occasional musings on varied literary topics. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. This year I will be reading mainly. Past visitors to : Acquired. May remember that a couple of years ago I was working on a story called "Shadow Puppet", the story of a bomber pilot and the war between the imaginary realms of Lauchenland and Beruzil. A wonderful evocation of an airship age that never was. Zeppelins: German Airships 1900-1940, Charles Stephenson. Hanna Reitsch: Flying For the Fatherland, Judy Lomax. Wallenstein's Death, ...
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Somewhere in Maesteg: All I want for Christmas...
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And now, I'm also Somewhere on Facebook. World domination is surely just around the corner? Wednesday, January 23. All I want for Christmas. Dear Santa, I know it's early but I thought I'd get in quick. could you possibly see fit to buy me one of these, please? I've been a very good boy. But hey, the guy is certainly well trained, and so should you be if you dont want to crash like a . lol. So in your wish, include an eBook and a complete DVD course for the purpose lol, Good luck. View my complete profile.
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The Mystery of Language: Numbers | The Star Chamber
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Matt Keefe's Online Journal. The Mystery of Language: Numbers. The Mystery of Language: Numbers. December 22, 2011. So I’m in Osman’s Continental Supermarket and there’s an Arab couple in there looking for fish because they’ve got Christians coming for Christmas and they aren’t sure exactly what type of fish it is Christians eat at Christmas or something. (They should have asked me. I could have told them: turkey. Anyway, I thought it was Fridays that Christians eat fish? عشرة كيلو ارز 10.99. Fill in you...
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::Acquired Taste
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Occasional musings on varied literary topics. Friday, May 15, 2009. The regular visitor to : Acquired Taste. Will know that my appreciation for Jack Vance knows no bounds. For many years I believed I was alone with this particular enthusiasm; I was wrong. Vance remains a minority taste, but those people who enjoy tend to take it to extremes. The editor-in-chief of this project, the Vance Integral Edition (VIE). Winged Being: Thoughts on Jack Vance and Patient Explanations of the Obvious. I recommend it, ...
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Greek Tragedy & A Culture of (Self) Deceit | The Star Chamber
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Matt Keefe's Online Journal. Greek Tragedy and A Culture of (Self) Deceit. Greek Tragedy and A Culture of (Self) Deceit. December 11, 2011. Sacred rivers flow uphill:. Justice and all things are reversed. It’s men who are the traitors now. There’s no more faith in oaths sworn to the gods,. Our reputation will be turned to good,. We women shall have honour,. And ugly slander hold us down no more. No more we’ll hear the age-old songs. Till now Apollo, lord of song, has not bestowed. The Al-Shaykh (pronounc...
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The Maltese Fact Hunt | The Star Chamber
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Matt Keefe's Online Journal. The Maltese Fact Hunt. The Maltese Fact Hunt. December 9, 2011. Since I last went to Malta, in 2009, I have started learning Arabic. In fact, looking back at my old notebooks, it looks like I started learning Arabic only a month or so after returning from Malta, though the two weren’t connected. That’s not a prank. (For the record, it’s pronounced ‘Trejqet Inżul Ix-Xemx’.). Indeed, there is no less ancient copy; it was written in the 1960s and is long out of print supply and ...
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Adventures in Museland: Choosing A Plot
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Blog of Joel Brown, author of Our Own Personal Gaia and other short stories. A working dad working to launch a career as an indie writer - juggling work, fatherhood and the business of writing. Afficher mon profil complet. 2146 / 150000 words. 1% done! Quick update, I am writing this on my new ipod tou. Matt F W Curran. Lundi 12 octobre 2009. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruis Zafon (still! The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (ebook). Not much since my ipod has packed up! Supernatural s05e04 and 05.
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::Acquired Taste
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Occasional musings on varied literary topics. Monday, April 30, 2012. You all got the ebook of Dragonchaser. While it was free, right? If you didn't, it's now £1.53 so it shouldn't break the bank). You might be wondering now what to download and read next. I can't recommend anything else free, I'm afraid, but you could do much worse than pick up Alan Furst's WWII espionage novels, starting with Night Soldiers. Witnessed by some uncomprehending Amazon reviews), but once you've adjusted to Furst's calm pro...
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