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A damned talented elephant
The Path of Pollen or Frauds (freuds) 7
Lately we’re picking up a great deal of consternation in the media about bees, or the lack of them. Unrestrained use of fertilisers in the USA has killed off many of these essential pollinators, and now some canny operators are hiring out mobile bee-pollinating units and driving from one end of the country to the other with them. Continue reading The Path of Pollen or Frauds (freuds) 7
The Little Red Chairs-Edna O’Brien
‘Edna O’Brien was the first Irish woman to have sex,’ says Anne Enright in her Guardian review of O’Brien’s 2011 novel, The Light of Evening. She goes on to say for Irish women of that time, 1960, sex was mostly about having children.
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Gurus in the Family Part 2 My Father’s Guru by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Jeffrey Masson’s father’s guru PB Brunton, known in the family as PB, unlike Sri Ramakrishna, was not given to ecstatic fits or animal possession. A small neat man with a pointed beard he inspired the devotion of Masson’s father Jacques and his uncle Bernard without performing any spectacular feats. Continue reading Gurus in the Family Part 2 My Father’s Guru by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Frauds(freuds)6: Tommaso Benedetti
Frauds/freuds 5: ontological preliminaries and angry penguins
Frauds (freuds) 4 : Arthur Cravan, tangoing till dawn
Frauds (freuds) 3: The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers*
Robinson Crusoe teaches the bear to dance. Continue reading Frauds (freuds) 3: The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers*
Frauds (freuds) 2 – Peter Treseder and Donald Crowhurst
Peter Treseder * The Golden Globe circuit
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