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in came Officer Zilch,

At that very moment...

eggs and a goose

The Gang That Sang "Heart of my Heart" - The Four Aces

Every man for himself by Beryl Bainbridge “A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget- but not himself.” This is another variation of the Titanic story, this time by Beryl Bainbridge. It was shortlisted for the Booker in 1996. Spoiler Alert: it sinks! This is a fictionalised account, although a number of real-life characters do flit in and out: Thomas Andrews, Ismay, Astor, Captain Smith, Lady Duff Gordon and others. There is a first-person narrator, who is a young relative of J P Morgan, or at least an adoptee: it isn’t that clear. He is rather handily called Morgan. The fictional characters are mainly in first class and are a fairly typical assortment. These include an opera singer with a dubious past, a rather obvious caricature of a Jewish tailor, assorted young adults interacting in fairly typical ways. Morgan is in his early 20s. In the folio edition, which I read, the illustrations were by Bainbridge herself (the best part of the book it must be said). Bainbridge spends only the last quarter of the book on the sinking. The first three quarters deals with the comings and goings of the first class passengers, the circle around Morgan. As you would expect, there’s nothing new here and the cavortings of the youngish and rich do lose their attraction after a while. It seemed to me to be a wasted opportunity to ignore most of the passengers. Bainbridge has a good imagination and tells a fair story, but this just didn’t really resonate with me. 6 out of 10 Starting Burntcoat by Sarah Hall

Mario Puzo "The Godfather" M.A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita" James Joyce "Ulysses" Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby" Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange" Erich Maria Remarque "A Night in Lisbon", "Life to Live and Time to Die" Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Bernard Werber "The Empire of the Angels"

Heart and Soul - T'Pau

so I rang Out of the Frying Pan, a greasy spoon delivery service in Clapham. I ordered 200 beef patties on bread, to be sent immediately to Pompous Our Lord of Holy Fathers, Bugle Rd, London. Cash on delivery..all 700 quid..from my esteemed colleague and friend, Victor Cross, Parson extraordinaire. Three hours 1 minute later, a furniture van turned up at the parson' s church. It was now 8pm and no one seemed to be around. Fred Fallacious, 43, a driver from Surbiton, knocked, no reply. Eventually he got hold of Victor's wife, Petunia, an ex administrator for a team of bucket manufacturers in Shoreditch,who met the parson while dreaming about marigolds in a Starbucks in Salop. ''Ere brav, oive a tan a bladdy beef burgers ere an I wanssum offa me ands,ya get me? Get daan ere naa..' Trusting in the beneficence of the Lord, Parson Victor felt it would be gratis, a gift from God. ' Awfully kind of you, I'll be there in 5..toodle oo', and at that, the driver just tipped the burgers onto the porch,stood laughing, and awaited our dear man of the Lord to grace us..

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are those morons doing out there?' On inspection, I discovered the huge pile of cat litter, mixed with a generous helping of dirt, deposited slap bang in front of our door, making it impossible to open. I bellowed at the idiots but they just waved and drove off. Fuming, I rang the truck company and told them if they didn't move the heap forthwith, they'd have a lawsuit on their hands. But the receptionist said that those were the instructions given, she had them in front of her. 'Who in hell gave those orders, I'll have their...' But she'd hung up. That left only one thing to do,

Anyone Who Had a Heart ~ Dionne Warwick

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There are 3 million on the harmonic spectrum. Joel has devised the grail.

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sadden her profusely...now chop chop Vicar.. ' Three hours 43 minutes, and 12 seconds later, a huge tipper truck, yellow in colour, arrived I heard a crash and many thuds, as half a ton of cat litter was opposed onto the cat cafe courtyard. ' What in God's holy name.

Do you mean actually analysing note by note or books which describe the effect of music? I don't play any instruments but the novel which got me making a huge listen-to list is Trio by Sue Gee. It's a terrific book too.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions!

Hi, Could someone recommend any books with analyses of music pieces so that I could both read about and listen to a specific piece. The type of music doesn't matter as I listen to most types. I guess most will be about classical music. Thanks for an help.

The Grail Diary is now available online. The Genesis Code by Raymond Signus.

Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams

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You Took Me Heart and Soul ~ The Narcs