TS Eliot – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:49:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.4 Hiroo-worship http://www.ashsmyth.com/hiroo-worship/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/hiroo-worship/#respond Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:39:46 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3288 Review of Werner Herzog’s Das Dämmern der Welt – or (probably) The Twilight/Dawn (of the?) World.

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For Perspective

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For The Critic

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For The Critic

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The diamond, in sufficient heat, will burn like a piece of charcoal.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Saturday, November 17 1906
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Podcasts will soon be like porn.

The first three volumes of TS Eliot’s letters have been remaindered.

Confidence travels.

The door is a jar.

Roken is dodelijk.

Humans’ rubbish is the filthiest stuff there is.

The workmen’s compensation court is a small building.

Firemen and violinists have soup for supper.

A pack of veggie snacks weighs the same as one standard British Army rifle round.

Pink isn’t a very good colour for a football shirt.

Turkish dictionaries are half the size of Ottoman ones.

It is possible to commit mass murder and still die peacefully in one’s old age.

For elephants, follow the A4108.
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For Geographical

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