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Archive for November, 2008

Disturbed

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Just read about the shocking amount of plastic swirling around the centre of our oceans.

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Looks like from this day forward I will use canvas shopping bags for groceries and buy everyone some for Christmas. Let’s call it my new crusade.

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November 16th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

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Lest We Forget…

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…the University of Oxford has just launched The First World War Poetry Digital Archive. This historical period has always fascinated me. In grad school, I studied the literature of the period, and some of it — Wilfred Owen’s poems, Frederic Manning’s novel Middle Parts of Fortune — I return to often. Some of the most powerful writing emerged from that period.

Graves at Somme
WW1 Gravestones, The Somme – Image © Oxford University

I had a look around the archive, and I was impressed. I urge you to do the same.

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November 11th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

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