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Conservatives are those with a soft spot for preexisting evils; Liberals in contrast typically exhibit a stronger taste for newer ones. Just ask Colin Dexter and Chief Inspector Morse.

Take this kiss upon thy browAnd in parting from me nowThis much more let me avow: You are wrong should you not deemAll my days to be a dream. Yet if hope is flown awayIn a night or in a day In a vision or yet noneIs it thereby less the gone? All we seeContinue reading “Edgar Allan Poe”

I lingered round them under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. So the story goes.

It is not enough to seek Who the hell was Mervyn Peake?

When thinking errant Edward Plunkett Just stop and think A bullet if you can Like the man Said

The true inspiration for Aeon Flux and extra special things redux

Conan, Kull, and Solomon are kings Immune from all indentured slings

Should the master speak The boards may creak

The night crew And the shadows grew