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Revenge in a Clockwork Universe
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A poet, his aunt, Stephen Fry and a peacock you might like to meet, but probably wouldn't want to play Strip Monopoly with. Bulgakov, Gogol...Spraints.
Don't have nightmares.
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Something untrue. I trust in your imagination.
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My aunt Mary is a deeply clever woman. However, there are members of my family who prefer to describe her as being something of a calculating woman. The fiery politics of family has always prevented anyone from saying such things without the accompaniment of a nod, wink or humourous anecdote, as if to suggest that if she is indeed a calculating or manipulative woman, she can only be so in the nicest, most harmless possible way.
Aunt Mary knew very well that it wasn’t her I had come to visit. She’d heard, probably from my uncle, Ternby, a man with a mouth
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