Excellent. Now stay here this time :) (View Post)

Dura _Ace once again displays his vast intellect with one of his, oh so, pithy comments. (View Post)

One of my favourite books of all time - or rather four books. Lawrence Durrell is well worth getting into. Beautifully dense writing. I find him very similar to Gabriel García Márquez in his prose an… (View Post)

Ah you disapoint me. I thought you would have been reading The Alexandria Quartet - one of the finest books ever written in the English language (View Post)

The argument still holds true. Nations are collections of peoples operating under a set of agreed rules and parameters, sharing cultural and language ties. They facilitate the expression of democrati… (View Post)