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(I’m a man of few words.)

“WORD BLITZ.”

The actual World War II Blitz in London was probably less difficult.

Why do I suck at this?  The college friend with whom I play online routinely gets TEN TIMES my score.  (Dammit, Janet.)  You’d think I’d be good with words, what with all the poemy-type things and the stories and such.

Nope.  People who are currently LEARNING the English language are probably better at this than I am.

I’m terrible at Scrabble too.  So if we’re at a party together, do NOT pick me for your team!  

(I’m kidding, of course.  I don’t get invited to parties.)



Cover to Depeche Mode’s “Blasphemous Rumors” Single (1984)

Music Works (Highbury, London), Hansa Mischraum (Berlin).

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“Wild Duck Pond, Sandringham — Mallards Coming In” Archibald Thorburn, 1911

Illustration from King Edward VII as a Sportsman, by Alfred E. T. Watson.  Longmans, Green and Co., London.

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A pal of mine told me that she was so happy that she could go out and eat lobster in a suit.

I told her that she was better off ordering a lobster that wasn’t wearing anything.

I’m so funny.



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Raphael Tuck & Sons. London. 1903.

Cover to Vargo Statten’s “The Red Insects,” 1951

Scion Publishing.  London.  First Edition.

“Vargo Statten” was a pseudonym for pulp writer John Russell Fearn.  I cannot determine the cover artist here — I’m not sure anyone still knows.

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Photo of a solar eclipse from “The Story of the Heavens,” Sir Robert Salwell, 1878

London, Cassell.

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“Girl with Heart Balloon,” Banksy, 2002

London.

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Photo credit: By LYDIA and her SALAD DAYS (Flickr: BANKSY : LONDON) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

Antonio Canova’s “Helen of Troy”

Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

I love this piece.

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Photo credit: By Yair Haklai (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons.