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Inside, we are all the same age
Gertrude Stein. I wonder whether she meant that inwardly we are all the same age as one another? That would be a little odd. Or that inwardly each of us remains at one age, that is, an unchanging one? By the sense of it, the second seems more likely. Inside,
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I doubt I am the only one to have run into the problem: the state and size of the home library are such that no book can be found in it, so it is easier to buy the edition you need than to hunt for it at home
In the Press · Books · Observations
The Parnassian Mockingbird Turns 6!
In all these years I could count on one hand the days when I failed to post in the Mockingbird. It is not merely a community of cultural history or some new medium: the Parnassian Mockingbird has become a self-sufficient intellectual phenomenon with a style, a character and a
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The author compares the time before leaving home to the thickness of an old book
How soon shall I leave the house? In about this long
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Nicholas II and George V on photo cards where they swap places
Nicholas II and George V are such fun, swapping places in identical photographs to confuse everyone around them: the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of their day. I just cannot decide whether this is already "Papasha from the Posters" or still "Two: Me and My Shadow"
Observations · Society · Nature · Humour
Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining
Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining it by saying that man
Cinema · London · Monarchies · Observations · Pop Culture · Society Pages
Tatler highlights the grey hair of Elizabeth McGovern, Letizia and Caroline of Hanover
Tatler has taken note of gracefully greying celebrities, among them Princess Caroline of Hanover, Queen Letizia of Spain and, the most striking of all, Elizabeth McGovern. The steel-coloured locks swept back from the face of the 60-year-old American actress, who played the mistress of Downton Abbey, together
NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations · Humour
Children, Raise Your Hands If You Too Felt Dizzy at the Upside-Down Map of the Mediterranean
Architecture · Observations · Mores · Humour
I watched an estate agent's presentation of a 19th-century mansion in Scotland
I watched an estate agent's presentation of a 19th-century mansion in Scotland. The Americanisation of everyday life as it is. A house of more than 1,500 square metres, set in 12 hectares of land with a cottage, outbuildings and a glasshouse, is on sale for £4
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
The statues in the Babylon Hall of the Pushkin Museum do not talk to you!
The statues:
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