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Your favourite essays?

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Dear Poirot,
here's a few of the late chapters that I'm not altogether ashamed of. Google Docs, should work; hopefully the format translates ok:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1vcAkk5TPm5oVhF6yx75uW4dxjT3dDtLcVKlUQXtIUkA&hl=en#
Posted by Squeers, Friday, 13 August 2010 8:07:54 PM
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Dear Squeers,

I haven't read Fry's, "The Stars' Tennis Balls,"
but I shall add it to my to do list.
Fry would make an excellent bishop.
He was great as Oscar Wilde.

As for how you and Poirot can exchange documents,
why not both of you initiate new emails (under
new pseudos) at "yahoo.com"
Just a thought.

Or alternatively do either of you have a PO Box?

That's the best I can come up with at present, I'm
so tired and can't think properly - I'll possibly
come up with better ideas tomorrow.

Dear Poirot,

At present I'm finishing up a very heart-rendering
collection of events by Vivienne Ulman called,
"Alzheimer's: A love Story." It's an Australian
tale about the progress of her mother's Alzheimer's.
It's about illness, grief, and hardship,
but it's also about love, determination and joy.
It's a beautiful and moving tale, if you can get hold
of a copy - I think you'd find it interesting.

(By the way, I also love the Rumpole stories).
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 13 August 2010 9:36:30 PM
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Dear Squeers,

The link doesn't work - can you re-do it, please.

Thought of some other great short story writers - Graham Greene and L.P. Hartley - he's the one that penned the line, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." (The Go-Between)
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 13 August 2010 9:39:04 PM
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Dear Foxy,

Thanks for the ideas.

Alzheimers is a very emotive subject. Did you ever see the movie "Iris" about the novelist Iris Murdoch's battle with the disease. It's one of the best movies I've seen and starred Judy Dench (can't remember the name of the male lead, but he was brilliant). Apparently it was adapted from her husbands memoir.
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 13 August 2010 9:46:07 PM
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Sorry, Poirot, this should work:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1vcAkk5TPm5oVhF6yx75uW4dxjT3dDtLcVKlUQXtIUkA&hl=en

Good night all.
Posted by Squeers, Friday, 13 August 2010 9:46:17 PM
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I've been pouring over my, "Norton Anthology
of English Literature," (2 vols) and re-living
my uni days. So many writers to choose from ...
And, even though I love the writers of bygone
days (Romantic period, The Victorian Age) I keep
drifiting back to the Twentieth Century. To writers
like - Thomas Hardy, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Conrad, James
Joyce, George Orwell,Samuel Beckett. Tom Stoppard's
parody of Agatha Christie, "The Real Inspector
Hound," Virginia Woolf's, "Moments of Being," which
illuminates both her novels and her writings.

It is amazing what effect threads like these can have.
I'm thoroughly enjoying myself and probably wouldn't have
picked up these volumes off my book shelf had it not
been for this thread.
Posted by Foxy, Saturday, 14 August 2010 1:32:41 PM
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