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Category: Literature

Stephen Fry’s Hippopotamus

Fry is a comic genius although his comedy is tinged with darkness. Erudite, witty and (dare I say it) profound.

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Class, Englishness, Hippopotamus, Humour, Miracles, Oxbridge, Public Schools, Redemption, Stephen Fry
Benedict Cumberbatch filming Sherlock: Fat Les from London, UKderivative work: RanZag (talk)

The Hazards of Dramatising the Near Past

Martha Gill writes  of the hazards of dramatising the near past and asks whether we should delay so as to achieve perspective. 

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Assange, Cumberbatch, Farage, Tom Wolfe
Iain M. Banks

Has Iain M. Banks Sublimed?

The bald facts are that Ian Banks was a Scottish socialist and atheist and one of the finest writers and thinkers of our age.

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Artificial Intelligence, Magic, Post Physical, Science Fiction, Sublime, Transcendence
The Magicians Nephew (1stEd)

The Magician’s Nephew

The beauty of CS Lewis’ writing and the loveliness of Pauline Bayne’s illustrations.

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Faerie Story, Magic, Narnia
Title page of the 1662 Prayer Book, printed by John Baskerville in 1762.

The Book of Common Prayer

You do not have to be a Christian to immerse yourself in the timeless reflections of the Book of Common Prayer.

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Book of Common Prayer

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