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My mate Jeff has a brilliant post about pungent cheeses being left under the hotel pillow of his and his wife Ann's room in France. The things which award-winning writers get up to on tour.
posted by Joe at 11:41 PM
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Monday, August 28, 2006
My mate Jeff has a brilliant post about pungent cheeses being left under the hotel pillow of his and his wife Ann's room in France. The things which award-winning writers get up to on tour.
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- Name: Joe
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
I'm a 30-something blogger in Edinburgh, once sacked by my former employer for comments on the blog. I'm a bookseller and a serious book and movie fan, also posting reviews on books, graphic novels and movies regularly. The rest of my time is spent in thinking up smartarse comments, tickling my cats and supporting my local brewery.
2 Comments:
Joe,
Do you know this Mark Twain story?
http://mark-twain.classic-literature.co.uk/how-to-tell-a-story-and-others/ebook-page-07.asp
(start at "The Invalid's Story")
What's wonderful is the way that the 'corpse''s rank increases as the rank smell does.
I love Twain, but didn't know that one - quite perfect to go with this story, thanks! Will have to pass it on to Jeff.
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