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On his right hand, between the thumb and forefinger, there is a deep cut. The cut was unhealed and was made about two days before his death. Forensic experts suggest that the subject was in a fight, one that, on that occasion, he came out the victor. There was a crack in the bow, a …
“To Blackwell… J digging his late Docke, he did 12 foot underground find perfect trees over-Covered with earth – nut trees with the branches and the very nuts upon them their shells black with age and their Kernell upon opening decayed but their shell perfectly hard as ever….” From Samuel Pepys diary, 22 September, 1665 …
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. Machiavelli, the Prince, Chapter 15 “Is the report true?” “Yes, my lady,” said the messenger. “I am afraid it is. The Prince marches at the head of an army of five thousand.” “What else have you …
The Italian Ugo was a small man, and he could scarcely see over the battlements. Besides, the chainmail he was wearing was far too big for him and hung loosely down over his thin body. His helmet was too big for his head. He looked quite absurd, standing there and scarcely able to see over …
How do you remember your time in the dream? Is it static? – Of course, it is not. It seems it will go on forever and ever. And you never want to wake up.” Dante was almost euphoric. “Seriously, have you never experienced it? Time is not there in the dream as we understand it …
For the alchemist Nicholas Flamel it was liquid gold, aab-i-Hayat, or water of life, according to the Persians, Amrit Ras, juice of Soma, for the Hindus and uisce beathe, or whiskey breath for the Celts and for the Chinese: 酏 Yǐ. They said it was a miracle. The emperor awoke from a bad dream and …
Some devils have horns. Some choose to hide them under their hats. Others still are not averse to a game or two, as was Count Rosier who won the hand of Prince Mishkin’s daughter in a game of cards. Rosier did not care particularly for Prince Mishkin, but he always enjoyed cards. Any game he …
The bat was a bit of a rafter, the ball a piece of rag tied with string; and the wicket a parrot cage with the clean, dry corpse of a parrot inside… Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That Evans was captured trying – unsuccessfully – to set fire to his plane in No Man’s Land. …
It was not Das Horst-Wessel Leid The flag high! The ranks tightly closed! Poverty marches and we march with it! But Ed zittern die morschen Knochen. How the frail bones tremble! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! I lost count of the number of times I heard the thwacks. It could have been three, it could have been …
October 3 I start my new job with Mr Jaggers. I will describe his office where I spent most of the day copying his notes of one of the cases into a ledger book. In spite of the fact that we are in the heart of the City, there is nothing of the décor and …