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    My bad Justin. I was just joking. Unfortunately I...

    My bad Justin. I was just joking. Unfortunately I am virtually monolingual - I did French badly at school.
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    English isn't difficult. I picked it up from...

    English isn't difficult. I picked it up from being a toddler......sorry....
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    I remember a similar concern with texting that...

    I remember a similar concern with texting that hasn't quite come to pass. You'd get the usual apocalyptic headlines from the right wing press predicting the fall of modern civilisation when some daft...
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    It is thanks Gil. Just been very busy. Nice to be...

    It is thanks Gil. Just been very busy. Nice to be back.
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    I've recently discovered a Book Barn between...

    I've recently discovered a Book Barn between Coventry and Nuneaton which is stuffed full of second hand books. It's near a village and used to be a farm, but they converted the place to house books....
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    Hi chaps. Been a while with stuff happening. I...

    Hi chaps. Been a while with stuff happening. I hope you are all well. We are.
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    Yes. We had a games teacher like Brian Glover who...

    Yes. We had a games teacher like Brian Glover who didn't like losing. Very odd that he though beating 12 year olds important.
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    Kes was excellent. I enjoyed the film too.

    Kes was excellent. I enjoyed the film too.
  9. Oh yes. I don't think this was handled clumsily...

    Oh yes.
    I don't think this was handled clumsily but in a realistic manner. The discovery of the fact in retrograde adds poignancy to what for Evans is a significant moment. In a usual novel such a...
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    Hi Easy - no I don't know the bit you mean.

    I did read as part of the publicity that Flanagan's father was a POW on the Burma Railway, and that he died on the day that he submitted the manuscript...
  11. Good review Easy. I'd like to add some more...

    Good review Easy. I'd like to add some more thoughts on the book.

    The Narrow Road to the Deep North is also the title of Matsuo Basho's travelogue / haibun which includes text and haiku. Basho...
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    Agreed. It is ostensibly occult based, but...

    Agreed.

    It is ostensibly occult based, but this is based upon a view of witchcraft that is a romantic view.
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    There's always the overtly occult Dennis Wheatley...

    There's always the overtly occult Dennis Wheatley with such works as The Irish Witch, The Devil Rides Out, To the Devil a Daughter etc. The style is a bit dated, but they make good thrillers
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    And so the challenge is complete, the daily...

    And so the challenge is complete,
    the daily writings were a treat.
    I thank you for your entries here
    and hope we'll be as good next year.
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    Old Notebook Old Notebook finished. Thoughts...

    Old Notebook

    Old Notebook finished.
    Thoughts blackened all the pages;
    each day a moment.


    Winter

    Winter's frosty grip.
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    Puzzles Childhood's wooden puzzle boxes are...

    Puzzles

    Childhood's wooden puzzle boxes
    are lifelong pre-occupations
    when their parents input yielded
    multiple obfustications.

    Engineers engaging numbers,
    fitting their physics to desire....
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    A good haul of poems. It has made this thread...

    A good haul of poems. It has made this thread good fun.

    People and Pigeons

    Out in the city
    pigeons wheel, people parade.
    Crowds; a slow flocking.


    Winter Fingers
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    After Christmas Arse end of the year. Sudden...

    After Christmas

    Arse end of the year.
    Sudden chills, flu, a half time.
    New numbers change things.
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    I got no books this year...... but I did get...

    I got no books this year...... but I did get fifty quid to spend on my kindle. Woo hoo!

    That will probably buy me most of my reading for next year and so far I have downloaded a couple of books on...
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    Trotsky and Santa Clothed in red, alive and...

    Trotsky and Santa

    Clothed in red, alive and dead,
    corporeal and corporate,
    yet seemingly so disparate.

    Red connected, though poles apart,
    the snow and ice pick out their mark.
    Both of them...
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    Losing a Wristwatch Time now rolls onward;...

    Losing a Wristwatch

    Time now rolls onward;
    not round and round, though my head
    spins- unadjusted.
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    Christmas Eve Christmas Eve darkness full of...

    Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve darkness
    full of the blue stars watching.
    Birdsong but no bells.

    Christmas Eve at 12

    A twelve o'clock song.
    The frosty night rings with birds
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    Eve's Christmas Christmas Eve in town. Red...

    Eve's Christmas

    Christmas Eve in town.
    Red faced men gather by pubs,
    Red faced women shop.


    Hordes

    Hordes descend on town,
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    Wishes Out Christmas shopping. Try to buy...

    Wishes

    Out Christmas shopping.
    Try to buy seasonal joy
    that cannot be bought.

    This seasonal joy;
    the flashing mulled wine laughter,
    lulling stocking dreams.
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    And so you sit and talk until your day will...

    And so you sit and talk until
    your day will drift away and then
    the night creeps slow beneath your door;
    night swallows, your face hits the floor,
    and who was then is now no more.
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