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		<title>On Having The Prize Within One’s Grasp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thump thump thump. What is that sound? It is the sound of a human heart, stimulated by excitement, beating harder and more rapidly than it is wont to do when the body or the brain is at rest. I am sure you can think of dozens, if not hundreds, of circumstances in which the human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Groaning Minions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Beerpint&#8217;s latest poetry collection, a slim volume of twee verse entitled Groaning Minions, is an experiment in what the weedy ex-beatnik calls “fictional autobiography”. “Fictional”, note, not “fictionalised”. In a preface he makes his intentions clear:

By any measure, my life has been one of unremitting tedium. Nothing remotely interesting ever happens to me, nor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On “The Scottish Play”</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/8326</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among thespians, there is a somewhat laughable superstition that one must never mention the title of Shakespeare&#8217;s “Scottish play” in a theatre, on pain of who knows what catastrophe. Hence the euphemism. I say “laughable”, but you will note I have avoided giving the play&#8217;s title myself. And I have used the euphemism as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Replacement Bus Services</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/8317</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is often remarked that, in an age of mass transportation, what we have lost is the thrill and glamour and sheer romance of travel. It is true that were a modern day Richard Hakluyt to publish a modern day version of The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, the navigations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Balaam And His Ass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
22:22 And God&#8217;s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huhne O’ Clock</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fond as I am of inconsequential yet somehow intriguing facts, I was delighted to learn from today&#8217;s paper that the mother of soon-to-be-a-gaolbird Lib Dem MP Chris Huhne used to be the voice of the speaking clock.

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		<title>On Groovy Bongos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are bongos inherently groovy? It&#8217;s a good question. There are countless examples of the addition of bongos to a lineup by those desperate to impart grooviness to their combos. Sometimes it succeeds incontrovertibly, as in the transformation wreaked overnight when Claude Grimes And His Pulsating Rhythm Orchestra became Groovy Claude Grimes And His Pulsating Rhythm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/8297</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorothea Tanning, 1910-2012

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		<title>It’s Holiday Time!</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/8290</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the Muggletonian Great Holiday, celebrated on the third, fourth and fifth of February each year. On those three days in 1652, the tailor John Reeve (1608-1658) received his commission from God, and was told that his cousin Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1698) was to be his “mouth”. Reeve learned that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Administration Of Lighthouses</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/8287</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with great pleasure that I have come to this charming &#8211; if windswept &#8211; seaside resort, at the invitation of the Dobson Memorial Lecture Organising Committee, to speak upon that most fascinating of topics, the administration of lighthouses. First of all, I must confess that it is a topic of which I am [...]]]></description>
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