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Tragedy is a spectator sport

2008-05-15T22:46:37Z

While other people are writing about the arts - literature, the moving picture, music, North European, avant garde, stylish, ironic stuff - I am currently a translator at a tabloid. That means reading loads of gore and trash and death and rape of ...

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Worst Last Words Ever

2008-05-13T21:53:51Z

Dominique Bouhours, Academic and Grammarian. "I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is used."

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Artists use words to give life to ideas

2008-05-08T21:27:14Z

Post-modern academicians use words to strangle them

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Pressure points

2008-05-07T17:26:20Z

Last year I bought mum a foot massager. My father regularly buys her massage tools. And a few years ago a client gave my mum a giant Osim massage chair. For this Mother's Day we're planning on getting her an eye massager. I think subconsciously w...

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Lesson from the Mas Selamat case

2008-04-21T19:44:15Z

Question: What equipment do you need in order to escape from a highly-secure detention centre, operated by a secretive anti-terrorist agency, filled with highly-trained guards, in high-tech Singapore? Answer: Toilet paper

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The streets after dark

2008-04-21T19:25:30Z

I got off the taxi early today. It was 2am and the streets were still lit. I said goodbye to my colleague, with whom I shared the cab. I said I wanted to buy something to eat at the 7-11 but I really got off because I needed to walk. Here where I...

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It's not the religion, it's tribalism that's the problem

2008-04-20T17:11:18Z

I hate it when people say that. You've had a thousand years of religious rule. Somehow I doubt more religion isn't the answer to the problem of people kidnapping a woman and the poor father being forced to marry her off to her kidnapper.

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Is it really worth converting to something you despise

2008-04-18T21:56:11Z

Even for love?

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The Ghost Of Greek Gods

2008-04-16T18:30:45Z

Did they get it right? I mean the ancients, the non-Jewish types, who saw something all-too-human in the churning ways of the galactic winds. Could it be that the engine of fate is driven by many hands, not One? And that they, the gods, are viciou...

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The airconditioner has been serviced

2008-04-16T18:07:55Z

To breathe cool air again!

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