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Things added in June, 2005

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Comfort Unnoticed

Posted on June 30th by Dean. View Comments
Who wrote: "Comfort, unnoticed at the feast, enters smiling at the funeral" ?Hermann Hesse, maybe? Please tell me, if you know.
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Desert Bone Dry

Posted on June 30th by Dean. View Comments
"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow" - Chateaubriand. I printed these words on A4 paper and glued them onto large cardboard boxes, on the other side adding the modern legend ...
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Melita Norwood and John Walton

Posted on June 28th by Dean. View Comments
Imagine if they named spies after the place you grew up. The wonderful communist Melita Norwood was that woman.She has just died aged 87. Here she is, explaining ...
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Richard Whiteley, R.I.P.

Posted on June 27th by Dean. View Comments
Richard "Twice Nightly" Whiteley, OBE, died yesterday. He presented the long-running program that my Mum never misses. He had 500 ties. He was famously savaged by ...
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Paul Winchell, R.I.P.

Posted on June 27th by Dean. View Comments
Inventor and ventriloquist Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger, has died aged 82. The wonderful things about Paul were his artificial heart (1963), a disposable razor, a flameless ...
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You Only Live Twice

Posted on June 25th by Dean. View Comments
It is not the physical death of the body, nor mortal fear inspired by religious myth, nor the agony of physical failure that worries me. The death that I fear ...
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Don’t Fear The Reaper

Posted on June 24th by Dean. View Comments
Changes: the end of the old and the birth of the new.Death means parting, the great letting go, the end. It then also prepares the way for the new, for ...