Cunning Folk
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‘Your neighbours are cunning folk,’ Blackwood intones, as if the weighty revelation should be immediately acknowledged by his guest. But the remark simply hangs in the gloom until it too becomes as absurd as the speaker. ‘That a New Age
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“In the deadly glare of the Neon lights the pavements were densely crowded. Gordon threaded his way, a small shabby figure, with pale face and unkempt hair. The crowd slid past him; he avoided and was avoided. There is something horrible about London at night; the coldness, the anonymity, the aloofness. Seven million people, sliding to and fro, avoiding contact, barely aware of one another's existence, like fish in an aquarium tank.”
― The Complete Works: Novels, Memoirs, Poetry, Essays, Book Reviews & Articles: 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, Prophecies of Fascism…
― The Complete Works: Novels, Memoirs, Poetry, Essays, Book Reviews & Articles: 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, Prophecies of Fascism…
“… if you want to be happy, you have to believe in the possibility of happiness, and I do believe in it now. Let the dead bury the dead, but while there is life, you must live and be happy”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
Literary Horror
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