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..late twenties, early thirties, dark complexion and some variation of Asian ethnicity. There’s a cheerful bespectacled Asian chap who also mans the counter and who converses with her in whatever Asian language whom I suspect could be her father, except for his entirely opposite disposition. Everything is too much trouble for this woman. I’ve tried…

.. existence, I volunteered that the Max Merritt song I’d commissioned myself to write was on hold while I executed another actual but highly unlikely commission to write some English lyrics for an Italian sixties pop song. The ‘being commissioned’ thing is a good story, but in practice it’s not quite as romantic as it…

..about the issues they raise and are careful to get the tone and the clarity of their arguments just right to pass the editors’ stringent scrutiny, real or imagined. Sure, the letters are still not all great, but the standard is generally streets ahead of the ‘anything goes’ FB sewer. And I suspect that a…

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I hope he had a really good time in his three days. As a by-product of my reading I tend to collect oddities of history. Apparently I am much older than I thought – and probably dead. The story was also mentioned obliquely by my brother some time ago. However what he failed to note…