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Flying Buttresses
The central pillars know they have to give, Be seen to give, support — and this they do, Smugly unshiftable: out here we have A draughtier, more detached, irreverent view. They......
A Diplomat At The Age Of Four
Patrick Skene Catling Y es, as every British schoolchild used to know, King Alfred is said to have burnt some cakes. Even at King Alfred School in London in my time, he wasn't......
Cheerfulness Keeps Breaking In
James Walton SKATER by Mark Swallow Macmillan, f14.99, pp. 207 I n 1990, Mark Swallow's Teaching Little Fang, the story of an Anglophile student in provincial China, was widely......
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