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Quote: Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Image: Ivar Arosenius, Backusfest.
The insensitivity, it drives you mad!
Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2016-01-26 13:50. Updated on UTC 2016-01-26
Our continental friends, God bless them!
Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2016-01-25 07:35. Updated on UTC 2016-05-07
Language Lab
A collection of Americanisms and the Great British Stress Shift.
Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2016-01-23 17:05.
The last thing you want in a cheap flatpack company is a screw loose. Steptoe and Son go scandi noir.
Posted by Thersites on UTC 2016-01-19 15:04.
Lessing's Nathan, not called 'the Wise' for nothing.
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-01-18 16:14.
Fings ain't wot they used to be: Not every man is Trevor Howard. Girls should listen to the accumulated wisdom of the ages.
Posted by Thersites on UTC 2016-01-18 10:08.
Mohammed: not my prophet
Do I have a choice? Probably not.
Posted by Thersites on UTC 2016-01-17 13:50. Updated on UTC 2016-02-06
A cheerful month-long Ramadan fast in Svalbard (a.k.a. Spitzbergen) in summer. Is it supper time yet?
Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2016-01-17 13:01.
Hemingway under the hood
Let's lift the lid on the genius and his chiasmic creations.
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-01-15 16:34.
We agree with Mark Steyn on almost everything — just not this.
Posted by Thersites on UTC 2016-01-09 17:00. Updated on UTC 2016-01-10
Seventy-two reasons not to read 'Finnegans Wake'. And one reason to do so.
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-01-09 11:14.
Still guessing after all these years.
Posted by Thersites on UTC 2016-01-06 16:04.
The mould spreads slowly but surely into the jam below.
Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2016-01-06 11:20.
A trigger warning: sensitive souls should have the sal volatile handy.
Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2016-01-05 19:20.
Which is real, the souvenir or the memory?
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-01-03 20:02.
Stylish exits by those two rockers, Lemmy Kilmister and Arthur Schopenhauer. They'll be back!
Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2016-01-03 15:21. Updated on UTC 2016-01-09
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