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MarkUK
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Date Posted：16/06/2021 01:11:03Copy HTML This is for all, but Shula in particular as the most likely to respond. I've just read a great novel My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Published in 1951 it's a mystery/thriller set in 1840s Cornwall. It's one of those frustrating novels in which the reader is left to decide if a character (Rachel) is good or bad. I'm left undecided at 51-49. I've lent to someone who is also 51-49 but the other way, she's passed it on for a further opinion. I need more opinions to help me decide! A great story nevertheless, one of the best I've read in years. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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MarkUK
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Re：Books Date Posted：25/10/2021 07:35:53Copy HTML When I read about besieging armies building catapults and raised banks etc I wonder if those under attack ever tried to sally out and disrupt the preparations if they could. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Books Date Posted：25/10/2021 10:52:32Copy HTML When I read about besieging armies building catapults and raised banks etc I wonder if those under attack ever tried to sally out and disrupt the preparations if they could. Sally out eh? Love it. |
shula
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Re：Books Date Posted：26/10/2021 12:41:40Copy HTML We mostly used "sally forth" here in the colonies.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re：Books Date Posted：26/10/2021 09:45:24Copy HTML We mostly used "sally forth" here in the colonies. I must admit I have "tarried" more than I have "sallied." See sloth. |
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shula
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Re：Books Date Posted：27/10/2021 10:16:19Copy HTML Sallying is definitely for the young and nimble.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re：Books Date Posted：28/10/2021 01:08:48Copy HTML Sallying is definitely for the young and nimble. Indeed Shula, my Mustang GT convertible is race red & her name is Sally. When I go "Sallying" with the top down & the radio blaring I get "ogled" by pedestrians. For years I thought it was "me" but....................................oh well reality has set in. |
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shula
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Re：Books Date Posted：29/10/2021 12:07:41Copy HTML Not so many years ago, I got brave and decided to drive to the Target store right outside of town but I turned off too soon and found myself on the highway. I ramped up my speed to a full 40 mph since everybody else was going fast. A guy in a little red sports car sped around me and honked his horn. My reaction was screw you buddy, I'm not hooking up at the next rest stop. Then I looked up and saw the speed limit was 70 mph and I figured okay so maybe he didn't want to hook up.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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shula
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Re：Books Date Posted：09/03/2022 12:17:48Copy HTML A statement to consider from J. L. Gates' novel #True Messiahs (attributed to Titus Flavius Josephus): "Knowledge is warfare using the servant's door."
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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