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Gerard Hopkins: The Manley Burden of Responsibility

Sunday, November 1, 2009

‘Enough: corruption was the world’s first woe. What need I strain my heart beyond my ken? O but I bear my burning witness though Against the wild and wanton work of men.’ Minutes from the Annual General Meeting of Julian Richards’ shareholders, backstage at their old haunt, the Gaiety in Times Square; it’s now an [...]

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Song of the Best Western (III of III)

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

(cont’d from ‘Song of the Best Western (I of III)’ and ‘Song of the Best Western (II of III)’) She thought she hadn’t slept, but she was disoriented and vaguely aware of lightning. She squinted at a point of red light in the deep dark. What was it? She could hear him breathing, Philip, half-snoring. [...]

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Fishing Milf with Nacked Breasts – The Search for Meaning

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Word is in from the electronic mailroom that the agency’s incoming ECG has recently exhibited a palpable spike. Where the cybermailbag previously resembled nothing much more than a pendulous, geriatric scrotum, it has of late plumped out appreciably, tautening away the pachydermous wrinkles and stretching its knobbly surface to a pregnant sheen. What was once [...]

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