Market forces

Yeats - in context

I went out to the hazel wood, / Because a fire was in my head, / And I had not had my Health & Safety briefing.

Books I've actually finished lately: 50

I am keen to know why Macfarlane-Deakin took 'two hipflasks (one of whisky, one of arak)' - and where they got their 'arak' from, in Dorset.

How to write letters

God it has been wonderful country. But you hate country. All right omit description of country.

- Hemingway (to F Scott Fitzgerald)

[with thanks to Mika Tennekoon]

On the howsos and wheretofores of trees

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