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My Father's Wartime Letters to My Mother (5)
My Father's Wartime Letters to My Mother (3)
My Father's Wartime Letters to My Mother (3)
It is right to give them thanks and praise
In this epistolary episode, Wilf discusses daydreams, adultery, apocalyptic doom and eschatological doubt with Hélène, his fiancée.
Goose Bay
To think of being forced to go on writing, writing, like the wheel of a machine – writing tomorrow, writing the day after… — Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov, 1858Go ahead, force me…
Apologies to Richard Whately
Out of my head on the eighth day of a headcold of biblical, Qur’anic and Talmudic proportions (מי האף, nasal mucus, of which the Merciful One included among the impure bodily fluids), I have almost reached the apocalyptic moment, Christmas dinner, when all of creation stands still and the assembly, crackers cracked, paper hats donned, tucks with great abandoned relish (and other condiments
“There was born, on a day and date which it is not of the slightest consequence to mention, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.” — Charles Dickens, 1838
This is a collection of alternative facts.
"Tis as reasonable to represent one kind of Imprisonment by another as it is to represent any Thing that really exists by that which exists not." — DANIEL DEFOE
“There is next to nothing so big that it can’t be put into a pot,” the older man said.
But they can't make a decent man?
Loyal readers,
Why books are for schnooks
1. He had always been somewhat afraid of her.
“One runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.” – Joan Didion, 1961.
Wanna buy a restaurant in Paris?
"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." – Carl Schmitt, 1922.



