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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Aeneid
Chap flees Troy, dallies in Carthage, founds Rome. History starts.
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Geneviève
Mother-Hatting Cat Lover
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Gone with the Wind Review #4
Tough economic times(due to damnYankees) inspire creative couture.
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"Ineffable" defined: "I cannot and will not be effed with." (Courtesy of CCTooSweet in Running the Books)
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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The Stranger
Murderer sent up the river. Should have cried for ma.
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This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
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Belisarius
Lord Bountiful of Admin (Emeritus) Delights
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The Iliad (Review #2)
Vicious tribal boasting later mistaken for satire by naive critics.
[typo]
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Animals may be Evolution's Icing, but Bacteria are the Cake.
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Belisarius
Lord Bountiful of Admin (Emeritus) Delights
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The Mahabharata
Longer than sixteen Iliads. Can't we all just get along?
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Animals may be Evolution's Icing, but Bacteria are the Cake.
Andrew Knoll
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Chelley
Ship's Old Boot
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The Bible
Summary given, someone disagrees, someone else disagrees, God rolls eyeballs
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"I love old things, they make me feel sad."
"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Mabinogion
Bit like the Mahabharata but uses lots more letter 'w'.
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Penny S
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Monkey
Buddha sends for scripture. Monk, companions, magically defeat evil, enlightening.
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Dafyd
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Watership Down
Surprisingly, it turns out Bigwig is not the chief rabbit.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Clan of the Cave Bear
Ugly duckling among the Neanderthal is Stone Age Edison/Einstein.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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St. Gwladys
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Clan of the Cave Bear #2
Stone Age adventure, detailed sex - every last lick and wriggle
(Apologies to sister in law who described the book in the last 5 words)
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"I say - are you a matelot?"
"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Lonesome Dove
Cowboys kill Indians kill cowboys kill Indians; hookers cash in.
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TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Portnoy's Complaint
Self gratification in ways only a teen boy would understand, in hundreds of pages.
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Even more so than I was before
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Stetson
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Continuing the Rothian theme...
Elegy
Breast cancer used as rationalization for dirty-old-man behaviour.
(That's from having only seen the film based on his novel The Dying Animal)
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Dal Segno
al Fine
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Strata
Mickey-take of Ringworld. Funnier than the original.
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Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds
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art dunce
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The Metamorphosis
Lived life like an insect so became a giant bug.
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Ego is not your amigo.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Someone has killed someone. Is on Death Row. Mama Mia!
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Wise Blood
No false prophet is welcome in his new hometown.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Justine
Blind dates with monks turn out a seriously bad idea.
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Tower Heist: Funny Murphy, calculating Broderick, plotting Stiller, beautiful Leoni, Alda's Ferrari!
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Harold and Maude
Ruth Gordon: a goth lad's wet dream.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Come into the garden Maud
I hang around all night while you party - some date.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Big Russ by the late Tim Russert:
Father's World War Two exploits, growing up in the fifties.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Through the Looking Glass
Alice wins at fantasy chess with questionable rules and moves.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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1 Timothy
Paul recommends booze for coping with Christians.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Dal Segno
al Fine
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Jonah
Prophet gets down in the mouth about wicked city's repentance.
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Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds
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Chelley
Ship's Old Boot
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Ship of Fools
"One should always have something sensational to read on the train!"
Oh, ok then, all credit to Mr. O. Wilde! But still...
(And I know it's 11 words)
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"I love old things, they make me feel sad."
"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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On Chesil Beach
They so beautifully almost. But don't. Fright and forlorn flight.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The acceptable face of cannibalism!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Belisarius
Lord Bountiful of Admin (Emeritus) Delights
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The Oresteia
Sure, I've heard of Mommy-Daddy issues, but this is ridiculous.
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Animals may be Evolution's Icing, but Bacteria are the Cake.
Andrew Knoll
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Stetson
Shipmate
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Yeats' The Second Coming
Favorite quote-mine of lazy journalists trying to sound deep.
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Birdseye
I can see my house from here!
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Five on a treasure Island
four children + one canine = holiday adventure with lashings of gingerbeer
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Life is what happens whilst you're busy making other plans.
a birdseye view
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Birdseye
I can see my house from here!
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Five go to Smugglers Top
four children + one canine = holiday adventure with lashings of gingerbeer
in fact...
Five go off in a caravan
four children + one canine = holiday adventure with lashings of gingerbeer
Five on a hike together
Five go to mystery moor
Five get into a fix
Five on Finniston Farm
Five Have a mystery to Solve
Ditto.
Although...
Five little pigs
Fastidious Belgian uncovers bitter history but fails to prosecute poisoner
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Life is what happens whilst you're busy making other plans.
a birdseye view
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
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The Shack
God is whoever I want him to be. So there!
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Cinderella
Rags to riches tale involving transgenic mice, pumpkins and slippers
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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When God was a Rabbit:
Rabbit arrives, rabbit talks, rabbit dies, other characters weird out.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Little Miss Muffet
Al fresco dining produces sudden-onset anorexia in juvenile arachnophobe
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
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The Hinge of Fate by Winston Churchill
From unbroken disaster to amazing success allied with Joseph Stalin.
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