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		<title>On Dumbing Down</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9177</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ipsy dipsy doo. Pipsy popsy pap.
Which is by way of saying I have been giving very careful thought to the dumbing down of Hooting Yard. It has always been my fondest wish, indeed my determination, that each and every dispatch from Hooting Yard is read by each and every person throughout the land, from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Aphinar</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9172</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE LOT : A SINGLE TUSK
ONE LOT : TWO TUSKS
ONE LOT : THREE TUSKS
ONE LOT : FOUR TUSKS
ONE LOT : TWO TUSKS
To the Director
Dear Sir
I have come to enquire if I have anything left on account with you. I wish to change today my booking on this ship whose name I don&#8217;t even know, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight / Eight</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9166</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For reasons both bewildering and unfathomable, Hooting Yard has occasionally ended up in lists of tiptop blogs perused by those of a Liberal Democrat persuasion. Partly by way of these perplexing bedfellows, I happened upon a postage called Eight years in eight posts – where Jonathan Calder, following the lead of some others, took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Ilg</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9159</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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In Brain Men, his splendid book about the British obsession with pub quizzes, Marcus Berkmann refers to the Gleam of Certainty. If, upon hearing a question, one of your team-mates exhibits the Gleam of Certainty, there is no need to debate possible alternative answers. Your team-mate knows the correct answer, beyond all doubt. Even if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Underpants Bomber, The U-Boat, And Ted And Sylvia</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9156</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then I ponder whether it would be a good idea to abandon all this Hooting Yardery and instead devote my energies to writing a blockbuster. In my mind&#8217;s eye I see the shelves of airport bookstalls groaning under the weight of sundry copies of a thick paperback with gold-embossed lettering on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Correct Placement Of The Apostrophe In The Title Of Reader’s Digest Magazine</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9153</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few problems in the history of human activity on earth have proved as intractable as the placement of the apostrophe in the title of the Reader&#8217;s Digest magazine. Indeed, running it close as a question which befuddles the heads of the best and brightest is whether the title includes the definite article or not. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important Reader’s Digest Correspondence</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9149</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 17:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter arrives in the post:
Dear Mr Key
I was interested to read your comments about The Readers’ Digest, which was a formative influence when I was growing up also. An ancient companion of my late grandmother lived with us, and was a subscriber: she would leave copies outside her door when she’d finished with them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Crooked Timber Of Humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His frostbitten limbs. Sappho in the doldrums. Bad gas and forts. If these phrases do not stir you, you are clearly not a devotee of Urbane Geistige Geist, who was born one hundred years ago today. If, on the other hand, your brain lit up like a beacon on reading those words, you will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sentence To Remember</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9142</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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I am sending you a bird&#8217;s head in a steel box filled with alcohol.

Pierre Bardey to Alfred Bardey, 30 November 1882, quoted in Somebody Else : Arthur Rimbaud In Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl (1997)
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		<title>On Brains</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/9135</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a period, in my early teenperson years, when I became an avid reader of the Reader&#8217;s Digest. As far as I recall, the younger of my two elder sisters brought a copy into the house. I suppose I must have seen it before, in doctors&#8217; or dentists&#8217; waiting rooms, but this was the [...]]]></description>
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