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It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. Barbara Kingsolver It is surprising how much we recollect our most cherished and vivid memories around the things we...
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One’s real life is so often the life one does not lead… Oscar Wilde Such are the senses, that we have more than five and fewer than six. Try tasting something without seeing it for instance; it almost...
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Every man dies— Not every man really lives… William Ross Wallace If ever I reach the after-life— and this really doesn’t hurt thinking about by the way. I’d hate to just turn up, be spoilt for choice...
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Coaches are the devil— Satan himself must travel this way. I’ve often wondered if I’d look back one day and consider the following twelve hours of my life with amusement or horror; and whether or not...
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The secret to humour is surprise. Aristotle A moot point perhaps, but oblivious in this case to the signifiers that make the ‘everyday’ flow seamlessly from one interaction to the other; if they...
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Those familiar, would know Montmorency: And those not, should be; a dog born with more than his fair share of original sin… I was a familiar stranger once in a city of few lights past the open fridges...
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