at a restaurant - it was a birthday party for the rock star's right-hand woman
towards the end of the evening a waitress arrived with a tiny candle stuck in a chocolate truffle surrounded with Smarties and we all sang the Happy Birthday song and then the rock star wanted to make a speech but at the exact same moment that he stood up and started speaking the couple at the next table who were having a difference of opinion got really really shouty at each other
so we watched them instead
“If This Be Magic” by Daniel Hahn – A superbly diverting book about
language and creativity
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Steven Poole at The Guardian: The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges,
who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf
int...
1 hour ago
This is like choosing Eastenders over X Factor... and I do :-)
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perfect! xx
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