Widower's Tango
Friday, February 28, 2014
The Unquiet Englishman
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G.B. Shaw said that England and America were "two nations divided by a common language." CNN proved the truth of Shaw'...
Monday, February 24, 2014
Something Left Undone
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While I was waiting (and waiting . . . and waiting) for my power to be restored last December, I had, as you might imagine, a few things on...
Thursday, February 20, 2014
The Spirit of the Epoch
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In his 1920 preface to the collection of stories in A Set of Six , Joseph Conrad wrote about the background of "The Duel" (wh...
Friday, February 14, 2014
Lost in Yalta
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Since I made it my custom every year since 2009 to devote Valentine's Day on this blog to a distinctive film on the subject of love, I...
Friday, February 7, 2014
A Walk Around the Block
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"Someday we'll go places New lands and new faces The day we quit punching the clock. The future looks pleasant, But at p...
Monday, February 3, 2014
Letter from Home
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Despite my living Beyond the Pale (the entirety of Ireland outside Dublin that Queen Elizabeth I designated as beyond her control) - blow...
Friday, January 24, 2014
Blown Away
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On November 7, the day before Typhoon Haiyan (known as Yolanda in the Philippines) hit the coast of the Visayas Region, I had watched the...
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