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Daily Prompt: Always Something There to Remind Me
A song comes on the radio and instantly, you’re transported to a different time and place. Which song(s) bring back memories for you and why? Be sure to mention the song, and describe the memory it...
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VisDare 55: Protective
At your feet I lay my weapons, my Lady For in your presence there can only be peace And the silence of your worshippers, Us, the long dead soldiers, Your monks, your slaves, As invincible in death as...
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#AtoZAprilChallenge: (On) War
He wrote from a position of knowledge: that of people who have been there, who stared defeat in the face, felt the icy lips of Death, and, later, much later, realised the sweetness of victory. He’s an...
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#DailyPost: Dream Teacher
Any person from history… As he entered the room he saw her: a diminutive woman of about his age, wearing her kimono tight, and a white belt, both immaculate. Before his first step on the tatami he...
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In a deep well, reflections on reading Haruki Murakami’s Wind-up Bird Chronicle
It is a rare writer who can combine the spectra of recent history in its full horror, the dreams of love, and the mysteries of the soul. So is Monsieur Murakami. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle was...
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#AtoZChallenge2015: Képi
Ah, le sable chaud… This incomparable military hat evokes La Légion, Jean Gabin, and so much of French lore, cinema… and military disasters! “The kepi (English pronunciation: /ˈkɛpiː/ or /ˈkeɪpiː/) is...
View ArticleTeufelsberg, or, of the Vanity of Wars…
The woods are silent, high above the hills a hawk observes the few walkers: we are aware of what we are treading on: a still intact Nazi building that resisted attempts at destroying it, on top...
View ArticleT-Rain, and a girl named Zula: a reading of Neal Stephenson’s Reamde #amreading
“Every other thing that he had done for the company – networking with money launderers, stringing Ethernet cable, recruiting fantasy authors, managing Pluto – could be done better and more cheaply by...
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Beginnings He knew where they had met, but he was less certain of when that was. He remembered the small town, and the woods, above all the woods, where they walked, kissed, watched the sun rise, the...
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Three Things Challenge: PL19 uranium moss dancer It was getting late. Slowly the officer laid the photo on the table. “Do you recognise what those are?” she asked me with a smile. On the stage the...
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