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D.J. Cockburn

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I'm a writer currently based in London, after having spent most of the last twenty years meandering around the world teaching or doing science of one sort or another. I've lived in a number of countries in Asia and Africa, though I remain incorrigibly English.

Please visit my website, Cockburn's Eclectics, which has links to all of my stories, including several available for free. ...more

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Tim smiled at Maria. Maria smiled back.

Good start, thought Tim, but one of us needs to say something before our faces start hurting.

“Have you ever had a date at opposite ends of a park bench before?” he asked.

“No,” said Maria.

Tim waited for her to say more.

Maria kept smiling.

“So this is your first first socially distanced date as well?” asked Tim.

Maria’s smile twitched

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The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery

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“Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?”
― Winston S. Churchill

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“It is amateurs who have one big bright beautiful idea that they can never abandon. Professionals know that they have to produce theory after theory before they are likely to hit the jackpot.”
― Francis Crick

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“If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow men, he ought to do what I am doing: pester them with letters.”
― Charles Darwin

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“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.”
― Charles Darwin

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