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From ‘Treasure Island‘ to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, via ‘King Solomon’s Mines‘ and almost anything written by Dan Brown, the search for hidden treasure, of whatever kind, has been a fiction fundamental. So I couldn’t pass up a visit to … Continue reading
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… there was the idea, rather than the word. Humans need to have an idea or understanding of something – a beast, a geographical feature – to appreciate it cognitively in some way, before we name it. But the word … Continue reading
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The Story Bazaar is fond of libraries, as well as the stories within them. It is an Amsterdam Library which forms the backdrop for the web-site after all. Earlier this week I went to see some of the remains of … Continue reading
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It is 8th January and the cupboard, or rather the refrigerator, is looking bare. If, like me, you had ‘special’ things to eat and drink for the holiday, you too will have been eating up the remains, taxing one’s brain for ‘interesting’ … Continue reading
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Tomorrow is Twelfth Night. Traditionally the last night of merry-making before the Christian feast of Epiphany, it precedes the 5th January, the last of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Your blogger is old enough for Christmas to have been a … Continue reading
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