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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large...more

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One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but—well...more

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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing...more

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The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.