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The Great Fire of London

Samuel Pepys

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'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from...

The Madness of Cambyses

Herodotus

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'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.' The...

The Life of a Stupid Man

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'...

Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!: Vol. 1: Oh! My Useless Goddess! - (Novel)

Natsume Akatsuki and Kurone Mishima

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Game loving shut-in Kazuma Sato's life as a young schoolboy in Japan abruptly comes to an early...

Foreign Bodies

Martin Edwards

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Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before...

Antigone

Sophocles

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'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's...

Wailing Ghosts

Pu Songling

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'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and...

Genesis P-Orridge recommended Kip Of The Serenes by Dr. Strangely Strange in Music (curated)

Kip Of The Serenes by Dr. Strangely Strange

1969 | Folk, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

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"We came across the song 'Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal’ on a psychedelic compilation and fell in love with it. I just thought, “Who could write a chorus of, 'Strangely strange but oddly normal’, and make it a really catchy song?” The whole thing was sort of irrationally brilliant, and later we found out that one of them went off to Japan and tried to become a Zen priest. Of course, when we considered the history of literature in Ireland, with James Joyce and everyone, it started to all gel. And then we found out Joe Boyd was involved. They did the first one in one afternoon, because he didn’t think it would sell. We’re not sure which, who and when, but there was some exchange of personnel with the Incredible String Band at certain times"

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