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Of golden taps and super-men

An interesting insight by the writer Louis Golding when he visited the Achilleion in Corfu in the early 1950s. The...

Clarice and Cora are two halves of an insane echo-chamber - a pair of identical twins who need to get...

Nancy is a character with battering-ram energy in all she does, exuberantly seeking opportunities to go to ‘war’ with her...

I vote for this to enter standard speech, even if you question the power of a pope in modern times....

A family gathering for the christening of the heir to the Gormenghast title, Titus, appears to be the first time...

Erasmus points out the dangers inherent in monarchies, the risk that such a concentration of power at the apex can...

An unusual pairing of adjectives and a surprising simile to embrace both.

'No thundering from a pulpit, no...

May those who have life-marking power use it wisely. It struck me as a curious phrase.

Source: Beowulf, Seamus Heaney...