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I’ve got an addiction for fortune cookies. Tesco stockpiled boxes of them for Chinese New Year so I’ve been getting a box or so since then. They’re just so tasty and I love the fortunes, I’ve got a collection of them now. One of my favourites is “Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well”. I just got a pretty fun one that goes “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length” I like that one, I kind of get it then forget why so I don’t until I remember again. So, why not ...

in my dream
you are sleeping peacefully,
brow sweaty
and your lips, pale, moving in and out
as they whisper
of the tempest and desire

leaning close I breathe,
"allons-y ensemble"

I can only be who I am
someone from whose lips spring
the froth of the sea
whose soul lays still upon the wave
before diving beneath it
knowing the terror and confusion that awaits
struggling to the ...

1900s
1902 Scott Joplin- The Entertainer (ragtime) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPmruHc4S9Q
1903 Banjo Paterson- Waltzing Matilda (ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58vujCL2dJI
1904 Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych- Carol of the Bells (carol) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TFrO8c_kVQ
1905 Civilla D. Martin- His Eye Is On the Sparrow (gospel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P0Zc-oQb1Q
1908 Jack Norworth & Albert Von Tilzer- Take Me Out to the Ball Game (pop) ...

100 Pliny the Younger- Letter to Sura
900 Anonymous- Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad
1200 Marie de France- Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
1250 Anonymous- Eyrbyggja Saga
1555 Pierre de Ronsard- Hymn to Demons
1605 William Shakespeare- Macbeth
1609 Thomas Middleton- The Witch
1621 Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley- The Witch of Edmonton
1633 John Donne- The Apparition
1634 Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome- The Late Lancashire ...

1998 My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
1996 Infinite Jest by William Foster Wallace (USA)
1992 The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1991 Angels in America by Tony Kushner (USA)
1990 Omeros by Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia)
1987 Beloved by Toni Morrison (USA)
1987 Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
1985 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (USA)
1985 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
1981 ...