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POETRY
Sam Furness • 1 card
proved himself in all respects a worthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.’
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Rory Mitchell
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Little Fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing…
William Blake
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Michał Wyrębkowski • 1 card
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Mark Stanley • 1 card
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
youtube.comThe Scottish writer James Kelman described the eloquence of unlettered people with a gift for language as ‘orature’, the capacity to compel and
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
In his book The Crofter and the Laird, the American author John McPhee journeys to Colonsay, the tiny Hebridean island that was the home of his ancestors. Here, he discovers, ‘almost every rise of ground, every beach, field, cliff, gully, cave, and skerry has a name’. The island has only 138 inhabitants, but 1,600 place names.