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This week has been bizarrely good drying weather for early April - sunny, windy, and not a threat of rain.
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And the Belgian refugees (well, at least their king) get a mention in today’s pages, randomly. #anthonypowelltogether
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This made me LOL 😂
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That does not look comfortable.
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Fascinating. The random effects of war. I was reading the gravestone of a WW1 Belgian nurse here in West Yorkshire and it turned out that thousands of Belgian refugees came to the UK in WW1. Although Poles in Iran seems far less likely.
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Yes, me too. I’ve always thought you can tell something about men by their hands…
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spare a thought for Tuvalu, so obscure that Forbes managed to rename it Tuyalu
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Manerklärtmühsam
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instead they will force-feed you poutine, make you ride a moose, and talk to you earnestly but boringly about ice hockey
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the other massive propaganda lie is: the state not helping or supporting you = freedom. In fact, it is exactly the reverse.
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Yes hard copy and yes jacket protected. It calls the book jacket the ‘wrapper’.
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The version on the left is the same edition I'm reading - as you say, a UK first edition - from 1968, borrowed from the library. I love it that the library still has such venerable copies in circulation - it is older than I am!
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👍
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please pick a sociable time for Europeans!
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A lot of people are avoiding / switching off from the news because it is so depressing. Understandable. Tempting. But ultimately dangerous. I've recently been thinking that people stopping reading local newspapers is one of the most damaging things that has happened in recent decades.
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Wow. I’ve just (tearfully) read the article. She is a wonderful writer and thinker but my heart breaks that life keeps giving her such terrible suffering to write about. Somehow, she is fully able to take that pain and experience and love and sculpt it into words, using the sharpest knife.
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The two year cycle for US presidential elections is insane and unconscionable
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We all appreciate a routine
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People certainly still get cheesed off. In fact there are a lot of cheesed off people these days!
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His nibs is cheesed off. (I have never ever heard anyone say ‘her nibs’ - I have only ever heard it used about a man. Has rather dropped out of use.)
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"It's time to tryyyyy defyyyying gra-vi-ty"
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I’ve googled and ‘(The) War House’ was the nickname for the (British) ‘War Office’. Which was indeed the government department (based in London) that ran the British Army from the 1850s until the 1960s (when the War Office was incorporated into the broader Ministry of Defence) #anthonypowelltogether
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Perhaps going through a major traumatic upheaval like a war (or pandemic?) might not change personality per se - but instead make people confront the reality of their true character, and consequently their behaviour, priorities, beliefs and desires might all be reset or refocused quite radically.
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❤️
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Thank you! I’ve missed you all too.
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Devil’s Advocate question: Does it actually change them? Or does it just reveal their true selves? #anthonypowelltogether
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I read Lermontov’s ‘A Hero of Our Time’ at school, when I was studying Russian.
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Boo.