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Cat valet, etc. Awaiting the sixth extinction in Dublin. Here for the witty aperçus and cat photos. For vintage crime fans my Oxford World's Classics edition of E.W. Hornung's _Raffles_ is out: https://tinyurl.com/2p9tv5pf
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Hey, Captain BoneSpurs gave up his day of golf for this.
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Some of many from Reuters
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Netanyahu: “We’re destroying more and more homes — they have nowhere to return to. The only natural outcome will be that Gazans will want to emigrate out of the Strip. Our main problem is with receiving countries.” www.972mag.com/gaza-expulsi...
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I'd like to hear more about its Beauty
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Tsk, supposedly keen to make Ireland great again, but don't know the name of the street (Coburg, not Corburg).
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Speaking as a convicted felon himself his views have great weight.
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Finally, an actual kris! Though I've never read this, so it's not what I'm trying to remember. Henry Holt, The Mayfair Murder (1932)
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Persian, and not a country house. Tsk.
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Cf. Chekhov’s dagger
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And courtesy of @acidrains.bsky.social , there is the ritual dagger in Margery Allingham's _The Crime at Black Dudley_
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It's close enough! Thanks! I feel my memory may have been addled by years of pastiches.