Outstanding essay on Joseph Conrad by the estimable Dr. D
Just read the whole thing. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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The First Doctor?!?!?
She even had companions and prior companions… Rumor has it, Helen Mirren would be willing to play a Time Lord… h/t – SWFBF Dr. J.
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Johan Verner Öland,b. Nyby, Bjurholm, Västerbotten, Sweden The character, the phenomenon, and the amazing real detective who inspired his creation. If you don’t like this, we may have problems being friends. Or not. The Czar hates all fiction—and, indeed, is rendered … Continue reading →
Bernard DeVoto, I like the cut of your jib, sir.
In 1928, D.H. Lawrence wrote a poem entitled “How Beastly the Bourgeois Is” in which he compared the middle class to a “fungus, living on the remains of a bygone life/sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater … Continue reading →