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‘Please use power wisely’ – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. 8216;Please use power wisely’. August 11, 2014. August 17, 2016. This year’s trip to China was a little like. Shorter than one might expect, but packed with incident. There were the usual strange little vignettes that stay embedded in the mind like burrs in a sock: the incomparable Benedict Cumberbatch advertising Dunlop tires. Finally, their town contained only one building taller than two storeys (the pentagonal clock tower of Ann’s library). I found this quite star...
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Why Don’t You Do Right? – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. Why Don’t You Do Right? May 1, 2014. May 26, 2016. I have a bad habit of attempting to influence the reading habits of my students. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Which should be compulsory reading material for everyone entering medicine or any related profession; and. By Sebastian Faulks.[2]. It’s Wolfenden that has given me the idea for this post. Why didn’t he write a dazzling novel, play or collection of poetry? Zen and the Art of M...
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Shake it all about – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. Shake it all about. September 20, 2013. June 17, 2016. At through the lattice. Deerfeet writes as follows:. It sort of feels a privileged position as home educating parents, to be able to prepare and educate our children on the changes they will face as they grow older at a time. When they each seem ready. For it, rather than the blanket approach they would get in school of everyone being given the same information at the same time. What if s/he is much older than me?
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No Means No – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. October 14, 2014. June 1, 2016. One of my jobs when I work in China is to conduct mock Oxbridge interviews with those planning to study arts or social sciences, and I make a point of praising them for answering a question directly, rather than using it is a peg on which to hang their knowledge of a given subject. This is for several reasons:. I I want to help my students practise some intellectual and verbal discipline;. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Slip 78. Sherif Ab...
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An unparalleled display of shawms – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. An unparalleled display of shawms. May 20, 2014. October 18, 2016. Dreary photograph; their playing wasn’t. Fundamentally, I cannot reconcile myself to the idea that travel. In and of itself. Is travel simply to broaden one’s mind (and I am not at all sure that it has been proved that travel achieves this) legitimate? 1] Or, as Edwin Starr might have phrased it, ‘ Travel! Good God, y’all! What is it good for? But decided on balance that this might have been misleading.
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Some bad words – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. August 14, 2014. May 26, 2016. Blank look. ‘What about surgery on soft tissues, like abdominal surgery or caesarean sections? Blank look. ‘We have female surgeons in Britain. Do you think they are less competent than the male surgeons? Three years ago, I introduced the idea of showing the kids a British film at the Chinese summer school. My original intention was to supply material for the practice interviews. Accordingly, the film we showed them was. Several things have ...
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The fish that is black – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. The fish that is black. November 21, 2014. June 30, 2016. I wrote recently about visiting Nanjing Holocaust Museum in 2009 (see Notes from Nanjing. Today I found the following snippet in one of my many ‘Thoughts and Notes’ documents, jotted down in a dentist’s waiting room and later typed up:. In January 2012 a hundred raiders on horseback charged out of Chad into Cameroon’s Boune Ndjidah National Park, slaughtering hundreds of elephants. 8216;dolphins are totally aquatic...
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House of Holes – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. October 21, 2011. May 26, 2016. Having written and published my first post (see The origins of the filthy comma. I did a search for ‘the filthy comma’ to see if my blog came up first (it does). Then, a little further down the list, I spotted the copy-editors’ delight[1] that is this article. On Nicholson Baker’s new book,. Follows on from Baker’s earlier ‘sex’ books,. Which is about telephone sex) and. American Psycho, Glamorama, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Which woul...
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literacystrumpet – the filthy comma
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Vaguely word-related since 2011. Nothing but a Hound Dog. October 28, 2016. November 7, 2016. I love beginnings. In particular, I love the beginnings of books. The opening lines of almost any book tell you something worth knowing about the rest of it: done well, they are fascinating, tantalizing little grace notes that set you up beautifully for the rest of the book, just as an. Sets one up for a delicious meal. Of course there are famously compelling opening lines such as those from. But setting meat pr...
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