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Ball on Shipboard by James Tissot
The dress detail is incredible. [Wikimedia]
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Using the internet and feeling at home
Facebook’s ambition to scatter “like” buttons all over the internet, encouraging people to populate Facebook with any and everything that catches their eye has forced me to stop and think about my internet habits and more than that, where I feel comfortable on the internet. The result is my realisation this blog is my nest.…
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Wearing Dead Men’s Minds
Paste with spitover the naked spirita carapace of text. I read,therefore, I am. But who am Iwho twists these wordsinto the food of ego?
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Are an author’s political views important to you?
Sometimes is my fence-sitting answer. A well-written genre novel (mystery, SF, romance) can pull me in even if I disagree with the political slant to the book–ie the way social class is accepted, questioned; the analysis/reference to current affairs. A non-fiction text, well, when I disagree with the author here, the disagreement is more likely…
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Iona by Francis Cadell
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