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Not sure what made me listen to this. I thought I'd clarified, also, that this was the first book in the series - but apparently not. Possibly not even the whole bloody second book, either.

Not that it matters. I won't be listening to any more. Nothing but an endless exercise in 'style'.

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Books I've actually finished lately: 133

Very neat and tidy. (And sometimes dirty.)

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I FUCKING LOVE JUICE.

(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 131

Eighty-one hours! Unbelievable.

But fascinating.

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Books I've actually finished lately: 129

(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 128

Weird translation.

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Books I've actually finished lately: 125

Often books speak of other books.

- Umberto Eco

(Audio)Books I've actually (re-)finished lately: 124

More importantly, I've just discovered that a distant family member was a keen enthusiast of Basil Bunting.

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To be alive as Chaucer was not the same as to be alive as Milton - or Tennyson, or Eliot, or Plath.

- Peter Whitfield

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Or - Gimme Back My Goddamn Lighter, You Commie Bastard!

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I push the cause of the mullet because he is a low-class fish. He is simple. He is honest. He moves around in great formations or columns. He does damn near all the work. But he is also noble. He is like another noble thing I once loved, called 'soldier'.

- Col. Mike Malone

(This is, for better or worse, why there are no Brit warrior poets in the Iraqistan era.)

(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 120

Books I've actually finished lately: 119

Conversation with my mother is like everyone's conversation with their mothers, but with a twist.
     'How come you never tell me what you're up to, but you reveal your innermost thoughts and most shameful anecdotes to everyone who reads the New Statesman?'
     'Well, if you match their rates we may be able to come to some arrangement...'

- Nicholas Lezard

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Without my shadow I don't know how the other half feels.

- Nick Cave

(Jury's still out on the audio sample. Cave is reading it himself...)

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We have to start sometime to turn the end of war into peace.

- Ajith Boyagoda

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I will have such difficulty in becoming English again.

- TE Lawrence, letter to his mother, 29/08/1909

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Consider myself examined.