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At the other end of life, I look back at myself with surprise, and a certain impatience. How
young
. How - not innocent, but ignorant. And how judgmental I am being now, groomed by decades of newsprint, radio, television. We are indeed in, or of, the world, there’s no escaping it, why should there not be a time of prelapsarian freedom?
— Aug 31, 2025 10:53AM
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The past seems to echo with the sound of breaking crockery.
— Sep 08, 2025 04:52AM
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One evening, after a reception at the British Embassy, we managed to elude our minders and ended up in a restaurant where a large party of Romanians at a neighbouring table were singing national songs: ‘Melvyn [Bragg] insisted we must counter so we belted out John Brown’s Body, Tipperary, etc. until the Romanians announced themselves defeated and departed with much flashing of teeth and hand-shaking.’
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MihaElla
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Memory is crucial, memory is everything, but to retreat there would be a fatal detachment.
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One of the few advantages of age is that you can report on it with a certain authority; you are a native now, and know what goes on here. That, and the backwards glance- the identifying freight of a lifetime.
🙂What a nice kick-off! Empowering even…
— Aug 13, 2025 06:13AM
🙂What a nice kick-off! Empowering even…
