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Joined March 2009
there's a place of eternal agony awaiting those who are cruel to animals and the vulnerable in this life
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Being able to transmute pain is a top tier human skill
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October morning even after everything the light returns
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Erin, The Spirit of Ireland, 1898 Talbot Hughes 1869-1942
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“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
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I love a good, strong nose.
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me and my friends
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Will you proceed? NEVER DOOM.
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The ancient Carnyx was a wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts, used between 200 BC and AD 200. It was used in warfare, to incite troops to battle and intimidate opponents.
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Cauldron of the Dagda
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“Being a fogey in those days was, in fact, a form of rebellion against the boring conformity of pop culture — against the unthinking Left-wingery of the university common rooms & the bigwigs in the art world, who were obsessed only with being modern & progressive.” A.N. Wilson
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Isadora Duncan at the Theater of Dionysus, Athens, 1903 - Photograph by Raymond Duncan Between May and August 1904, Isadora was in Bayreuth, having been invited by Cosima Wagner to choreograph and dance in the Bacchanale of her 1891 production of "Tannhäuser".
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I still laugh at the inability of liberal actor and director Jonathan Miller to look at Enoch Powell at any point during their debate. No doubt Miller was "disgusted" by Powell, but I'm sure the real explanation is lack of physical courage.
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“Our language, our music, and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centred, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives. One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is ‘me’.” Sir Roger Scruton
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Common Japanese W.
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meet me in my dreams
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Herne the Hunter is an antlered diety/ghost associated with Windsor Forest. He rides a horse, is accompanied by an owl, and leads a pack of spectral hounds. The earliest mention of Herne comes in William Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'.
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Atavistic Albion
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