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The bloke who interviewed Amis (and was also editor of the student arts mag in which it appeared) is now Managing Editor of News and Current Affairs for BBC News
Sorted out some of the stuff behind the bed settee type thing in the living room. There were a number of large books there that I don't remember getting, and must have picked up in a sale or maybe at a book clearance shop. They include the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (5th ed., 1999) and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (16th ed., 2001).
It's quite lucky that I haven't bought them again at some point in however long it's been; they're the sort of thing one vaguely thinks of getting for years without ever getting around to actually buying them. But clearly, some time in the last twelve years or so, I did
Made a small fry-up for lunch. Sat down. Reached for cutlery. Phone rang.
It was my mum, pulling her trick of phoning just as I sit down to eat. She managed this despite it being about three hours earlier than she usually phones on Sunday, providing further evidence that there's some kind of crystal-ball/remote-viewing thing going on
It's quite lucky that I haven't bought them again at some point in however long it's been; they're the sort of thing one vaguely thinks of getting for years without ever getting around to actually buying them. But clearly, some time in the last twelve years or so, I did
Indeed.
I have a remarkable number of things I've bought twice.
which I bought for the 2nd time & read all the way through with not one iota of deja vu all over again, only to find it in the bookshelf when I went to file the new one.
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