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Recent Posts
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Roland
Roland was a famous Norman warrior who met a heroic death fighting the combined forces of the Basques, the Saracens and Gripper Stebson.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who wrote about someone named Mal whose real identity has never been revealed. Baudelaire may have been a vampire.
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Bēowulf
Bēowulf was a famous Geatish warrior who slew dragons and whose name means ‘bee wolf’. Beewolf. Bee. Wolf.
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Arthur Rambo
Arthur Rambo passionately believed in the total deregulation of all the senses. He worked as a clerk for the French entrepreneur Alfred Bardey in the Yemeni port of Aden and later sold rifles to the Abyssinian warlord Menelik.
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Samuel K Amphong
Samuel K Amphong was one of the most important rock critics in the late ’70’s and early ’80’s. He wrote for the New Musical Express. His whereabouts were and are unknown. He may or may not be still alive.
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Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll was a Victorian mathematician and author who loved children.
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John Lydon
John Lydon is a famous Anglo-Irish butter salesman.
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John Milton
John Milton was the only major English poet to write all of his works in Latin.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was a French writer who never learned what a paragraph is.
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‘What Is Left?’ – A Question
This is a simple question, but one I think of the most important to ask right now. It is two questions, in fact. What is left to humanity? on the one hand, and then What has become of any meaningful counterculture? Claims the world is about to end are not new. Certain religious beliefs to…