In Mr. Pritchett's view, rules, regulations and blitzes have brought things to such a pass that the moment will come when only the reader "and the hundred best authors are left in the world and have somehow to shake down together." To prepare for this "unnerving situation" he has re-read and re-assessed some of these authors, and the essays collected in this book are the fruit of his cogitations. Gibbon, Mrs. Gaskell, Dostoevsky, Fielding, Kilvert, Twain, Synge, Swift, Browning, are some of the writers Mr. Pritchett discusses. Names and dates are diverse, but nearly all have one common characteristic: they demonstrate the axiom that past and present are often parallel in most unexpected ways. Swift anticipated modern science and its consequences nearly two hundred years ago. Thackeray drew a modern Mayfair playboy when he created Rawdon Crawley. Huckleberry Finn is blood relation to Charlie Chaplin. These essays should appeal to scholars and the unlearned alike. Those who have neglected their classics will make discoveries which they can follow up with the aid of the appendix. The well-read cannot fail to be stimulated by the learning, vitality and originality which make up the texture of Mr. Pritchett's mind. His pages are peppered with controversial statements; epigrams abound; digressions widen the range and personal opinions focus it; but critical virtuosity is always subordinated to the central problem, and always throws new light on it.

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Maribeth Ashley prided herself for being an easy going professor, professional and helpful. So there was one rule she broke-and kept on breaking. Her teaching assistant Gabriel didn't seem to mind; if anything he participated enthusiastically. Things got interesting when Gabriel mistook a message and sent Maribeth the one student that had always made her mouth go dry. * "Professor?" I dug my fingers into my palm. It was so. weird to react this way to a student. But, turning around, I had a blast of Simon and told myself not too many people could blame me. While Gabriel was the good looking, charming head turner, Simon was a. well, heartbreaker. You'd think someone my age would have gotten over that dreamy, quiet but intense type. But nope. The first time Simon had stepped into my class, I knew he would be trouble. At the time, I told myself that it was just my dramatic self rearing its silly head. After all, there were a smattering of other Simons around campus. Not too many but there were a number of dark haired, handsome brooding types. The thing was, Simon was built. I would never tell anybody, anybody at all but there it was. Whenever I saw him, my stupid self just had to have that quick intake of breath as my eyes went over that strong shoulder, and then down to that wide, sculpted chest. and then lower, where that body tapered to flat abs and slender hips. And it felt really wrong to talk about a student's ass but. I bit my lip. I had realized pretty quickly that Simon had a crush on me, even though he never did anything about it. But that meant that he very rarely had his back to me; those dark eyes of his loved watching me, a small polite smile ready on his face whenever he saw I was meeting his gaze. It added to my guilt-that this young man had feelings for me and all I wanted to do was ogling his ass. And yet.

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I'm a pole dancer. He's a wrestler. He thinks he can take me in a fight because he's got the skills and he's twice my mass, and mostly hulking muscle. He's wrong. Why? I'm so glad you asked. You see, I am a ballbusting bitch. There, I admitted it. Have I got your attention? This is the story about how I tricked Brad Houser, star wrestler at my university, into getting me off, again and again, receiving nothing in return except for pain in his poor, delicate, defenseless testicles. He thought he could beat be in a no-rules wrestling match. He should have thought twice. Then again, I'm glad he didn't!Don't get me wrong; I'm very fond of Brad. I think I might even grow to love him. But I think I'm most fond of him when he's squirming and under me, under my complete control. And maybe, at the end of the night, if he's really good, I'll make it up to him. Disclaimer: This is an erotic short story. It contains adult themes and is intended for a mature audience. The story contains BDSM themes, including bondage, domination and submission. All characters in this story are over 18 years of age, and all sexual activity depicted herein is safe, enthusiastic and consensual. Book Length: 7,400 Words

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Mr. Bentini's Lady: To help pay the bills, overworked and underappreciated middle school teacher, Tiressa Hawkins, applies for a temp position at Bentini and Sons. By some strange twist of fate, she becomes the personal assistant of Mrs. Bentini, the matriarch of the Bentini family. Tiressa not only loves her new job, she also loves that it pays much more than she ever earned as a teacher. Everything goes well until Tiressa meets Antonio Bentini. From the first moment that powerful executive Antonio Bentini, meets Tiressa Hawkins, he is captivated by her. So much so, that he insists on breaking Mrs. Bentini's number one rule and sets out to make himself the most important man in Tiressa's life. Tiressa has to decide if she dare take a chance and risk not only her great paying new job, but also her heart. Antonio says he wants her love, but is he really telling her the truth. Is what he offering real, or could it turn out to be nothing more than a meaningless affair? You will not regret immersing yourself in the love story of Antonio & Tiressa. Excerpt: Antonio I believe her-about not being an experienced lover-not that it matters. From my thorough background investigation, I know that she's most likely telling me the truth. She's one of those sexually repressed types and I have my work cut out for me tonight. As much as I want to drive my shaft right into her sweet body, I know I'm going to have to take her slow and easy. Damn! I'm not the gentle-lover type, but I will try to be for her. Hugging Tiressa close to me, I lean down and kiss her forehead, her left cheek, her right cheek, her chin and the tip of her nose. Then give her long hot sweeping kisses as I lay her back on the bed and position my body alongside hers. Resting on my side, I lever myself up on my elbow, leaning forward to caress her arm in an attempt to further soothe her. "Tiressa." Knowing how skittish my little lady is, I keep my voice low and calm. "I'm going to do my b

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This is the story of a monk who ruled the stock market. This is an inspirational story of transformation and self evolution a motivating story which encourages you to reach to the skies and accomplish your dreams. Despite the fact that Sudesh (the protagonist monk) was blessed with successful parents he felt that he was average. It is after his 12th standard exams that the family legacy was revealed to him. It is then that his world is changed forever. The reader is taken on a journey of materialism and spiritual awakening and soon the reader discovers that these are not two different worlds. Find out for yourself why this book changed lives.

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This book answers questions I've received from readers of my two previous books (Neophyte to AM and Maximum Meditation). The two previous books touched on perception and the mental nature of the Universe. This book is written to help readers sort out the implications of that information so that it can be truthfully applied going forward. Having answers does not mean that I want to be a Guru, hence the book title. The Universe is entirely mental and a product of your mind. I know, that's an incredible statement and total idiocy up against your physical and very material experience but it's true. You're having a physical experience brought about by mental machinations. The physical experience is mental vibration developed over an aeon to produce and interactive illusion. The illusion has rules, regulations and limits, all of which can be manipulated and/or broken by the will. The "physical world" as we know it, is nothing more than mental perception of a stream of vibrational information delivered in differing frequency ranges that we call sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. The perceptive illusion produced by the mind from the analysis and projection of the vibrational information has no actual reality, it's fluff to exercise and entertain the mind. It's something to consciously observe and mentally react to. The illusion of action being fed by the illusion of reaction, a self sustaining fire of mental play. The mind is all there is. The Universe is mental.

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It's been a few days since my last wrestling match with Brad, my sexy college star wrestler. He wants a rematch, and I'm only happy to oblige. This time, the rules are simple. Whoever can force the other into a pair of handcuffs wins, and whoever loses has to endure whatever the winner wants to do for the night. Guess who wins again. I'm not allowed to kick this time, but he never said anything about grabbing…Disclaimer: This is an erotic short story. It contains adult themes and is intended for a mature audience. The story contains BDSM themes, including bondage, domination and submission. All characters in this story are over 18 years of age, and all sexual activity depicted herein is safe, enthusiastic and consensual. Book Length: 6,900 WordsKeywords: Erotica, BDSM, Bondage, Ballbusting, Dominant Female, Alpha Male, Teasing, Orgasm Denial, Oral Sex, Penis Gag Sex, F/m, HFN Ending

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The movie 'My Beautiful Laundrette' based on the Hanif Kureishi's screenplay and directed by Stephen Frears made its debut in the British cinemas in 1985. It touches on various aspects of conflicts that minorities face. It adheres to sexual identity, class and racial problems by presenting many sorts of emotional bonding and the struggle to find one's right space in society. My focus will be on the narrative structure and the analysis of the characters' behaviours and actions, therefore I did not use many secondary sources. I am going to analyse the film by looking at three leitmotifs: 'love', 'success' and 'cultural rules of behaviour'. These leitmotifs are interrelated and often contradictory, which leads to many conflicts. The family love and support helps Omar achieve great success in his working class situation, which is backed with equal strength by his partner Johnny. Without Johnny he would have been unable to restore the laundrette. His success can also be seen as a result of the Pakistani code of behaviour where it is normal to give a relative a job if there is a chance to do so. However, the conventional rules of behaviour on both sides, Pakistani and British, stand against the relationship between Omar and Johnny and therefore also stand in the way of their success. All the characters present part of a subculture in which they have to strive harder than a middle-class person to be accepted by society. They have to face many boundaries and social problems. 'My Beautiful Laundrette' depicts these hard lives without playing on one's heart strings. It rather illustrates how it is possible to control one's own fate by making the most of the given situation and refraining from believing stereotypes.

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pub One. info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Let me never tag a moral to a story, nor tell a story without a meaning. Make me respect my material so much that I dare not slight my work. Help me to deal very honestly with words and with people because they are both alive. Show me that as in a river, so in a writing, clearness is the best quality, and a little that is pure is worth more than much that is mixed. Teach me to see the local colour without being blind to the inner light. Give me an ideal that will stand the strain of weaving into human stuff on the loom of the real. Keep me from caring more for books than for folks, for art than for life. Steady me to do my full stint of work as well as I can: and when that is done, stop me, pay what wages Thou wilt, and help me to say, from a quiet heart, a grateful AMEN.

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Where are you on your priority list? A key question in measuring self-care. Uncover your own customized strategies for moving further up that list as you bring this thought provoking and interactive book to life around your own kitchen table. Connect with friends and get your sense of self back with doable self-care strategies. Author Lorrie Forde invites you to break all the old rules about not writing in books-this one is yours to write in, reflect back on, and share as you choose. Make it work for you! This is not another thing to add to your 'to-do' list. Let the pages do the work and before you know it, you'll be laughing with friends, reconnecting with your passion, and the envy of your peers as you figure out what 'feeds you' and where your 'weak spots' are. How long will it take till you're using "F" words all the time and your cookie jar is overflowing? Analogies like this cookie jar and using really good "F" words help us to laugh at reality and a little laughter really can make all the difference.

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NEWS FLASH! Keeping a marriage successful does NOT take hard work! All it takes is making small changes over time. When the foundation of a good marriage starts to show wear, zero in on those imperfections immediately, right? Wrong. Focus on what's going well! Enhance the good things by adding new elements that will boost commitment, passion, and fun, and you will strengthen and build upon what you already have. It's also ok to go to bed mad! You'll find out why in this fresh, intelligent, and upbeat book. Dr. Terri Orbuch shows how keeping a marriage healthy is, in fact, not something you have to work at. She explains how simply playing, laughing, and being a good listener will have immediate benefits, and how using her Ten-Minute Rule may be the most important action you will ever take to keeping your marriage exceptional. She debunks common marriage myths and then provides checklists, easy-to-use tips, quizzes, and take-aways on topics such as understanding a couple's compatibility factors, fighting fair, ways to say "I love You," relationship ruts, and reigniting the flame between you and your spouse. And you'll find out why you shouldn't engaging in kitchen sinking!5 Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great is based on the findings of an groundbreaking study directed by Dr. Orbuch, and funded by the National Institutes of Health. The study, of the same 373 married couples, was begun in 1986 and continues today. Dr. Orbuch, is a renowned therapist and nationally recognized relationship expert known as The Love Doctor.

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I have a memory. It was a wet November day. The wind was relentless. bitter and cold. My Father and I stood outside of what was left of the old barn. It was skeletal, its days of glory long past. Our once magnificent house had been bulldozed to the ground by the present owner. The source of all my childhood memories had become nothing more than the investment of a stranger. Today Dad had on his usual old green hat, but I had seldom seen the ear flaps pulled down. His jacket was too thin for the weather. Conversation was difficult; the wind carried away words the moment they left our lips. Three months had passed since the tragic death of my mother. For the first time in eighty-eight years my father now lived alone. I looked into his face and saw his struggle, and that s when I knew I would never forget this moment. It would be a heart memory. This man had always done the right thing, followed all the rules and given freely without expecting re-payment or accolades of any kind. Did my late Mother s words ever filter through his mind, ?No family can continue to be so lucky Did he think the pain had ended? During the coming years would he ever question the God he believed so strongly in? At times I know I did.

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Lissa Bradford owns an up and coming catering business, and she's just about to have a promising interview for an event that could make her career. But when she arrives at the company's headquarters, she finds herself face to face with the CEO of the company - and he seems none too pleased at having to conduct the interview in place of his assistant! Gregory Thorne has a reputation as a tough, single-minded businessman who never mixes business and pleasure. But Lissa Bradford's dangerous curves threaten to derail him, and he finds himself tempted to break his one unbendable rule! Catering to the Billionaire is a completely stand-alone romantic erotica story. It is also part one of the new series, The Billionaire's Appetites, coming soon from erotica author Daphne Loveling! Excerpt:"Ms. Bradford," Thorne sighed, refusing to meet her gaze. Cutting his eyes back to the computer screen, he pressed a button, and then returned to meet her gaze. "I'm a very busy man, and this meeting has come at a very inconvenient time. Perhaps you could just leave your menus and any other materials for when Ms. Randall gets back. I'll see that she gets them." His tone was dismissive, the meeting clearly already over in his mind. Lissa, however, had reached her limit. The stress of preparing for this interview, combined with the disappointment of having it all come to nothing and the unbelievable arrogance of this man, had pushed her beyond what she could tolerate."Mr. Thorne," Lissa began, her tone icy. "I, too, am a very busy woman. Perhaps not as important as you, but arguably much busier, because my livelihood depends more immediately on my success. You see, Mr. Thorne, I am trying to build a successful catering business. With all of my own capital. Everything I own is invested in Select Catering. This contract, if I were to get it, represents a considerable amount of money and exposure for me. If it went well, that would allow me to hire more employees and eventually be able to operate

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Spit balls cover the Boss Family garden. The Phantom Spitter strikes again, but no one will own up to breaking the Boss House rules and spitting all over the lawn. Can Billy, the budding detective, catch the spit-criminal before the garden disappears under slimy froth? To enjoy this funny detective adventure, download The Phantom Spitter, the sixth book in the hilarious Billy Boss Whodunit sleuth series. Scroll up and hit the Buy button right now! Themes: Family Life, Gross Humour, Potty Humour (Toilet Humour), Fairness, Coming Clean, Detective sleuthing adventure Age: Listeners aged 4+ and Readers aged 7+ S.M. HELBIG'S BILLY BOSS WHODUNIT SERIES The nine chapter books in the Billy Boss Whodunit series are perfect for readers aged 7+ who love gross humour and detective stories. These weird tales are a unique mix of potty humour, family life and rule breakers being forced to come clean. Billy Boss is a budding detective who pits himself against those who leave gross body wastes, like snot or pee, around the home. The weird humour and funny rhymes in the Billy Boss Whodunit chapter books is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Young readers will race to the end of the stories and want to read the next book straight away. WHO LOVES BILLY BOSS WHODUNITS? - Detective, private eye and sleuth story readers - Anyone who enjoys potty humour, gross humour, and anything to do with unexpected body wastes like poops, pee, snot, farts, spit, toe jam, puke, ear wax and scabs - Families who like reading family life stories together - Chapter book and series readers - Reluctant readers * LAUGHTER WARNING* This book might make you laugh so hard you cry. If you want to risk enjoying Billy's gross detective story *that* much then scroll up and click the "Buy It Now" button! WHAT KIDS SAY ABOUT THE BILLY BOSS WHODUNIT SERIES "I loved the book the Phantom Bogger! I liked all of it. The cover is good, it made me laugh. I want to read all of them straight away but my dad won't l

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A thrilling adaptation, by acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead, that stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Asked to adapt it by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, she immersed herself in the book. 'After a sleepless night,' she writes in the Introduction, 'my hair was standing on end, what with the mad Renfield in his lunatic asylum eating flies and playing John the Baptist to his coming master and with Lucy's description of her "dream" of flying with the red-eyed one above the lighthouse at Whitby, and Jonathan's "dream" of the three Vampire Brides' advances upon him and of their being repelled at the last minute by the furious Dracula 'This was before I'd even got to the abducted children or "the loving hand" of Lucy's fiancé staking her through the heart or that shocking rape-like bit where, with Mina's newly-wed husband Jonathan asleep in a flushed stupor by her side, Dracula, at her throat, takes his fill of her life's-blood 'Still, what really attracted me to the story was Rule One for becoming a vampire-victim: "First of all you have to invite him in."' Ideal for schools and drama groups, this Dracula is all the more chilling for the respect it shows for Stoker's original nightmare creation. Liz Lochhead's version of Dracula premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in March 1985. 'Despite remaining faithful to Bram Stoker's original, Lochhead's version grapples with contemporary preoccupations: gender roles, the horrors of the 20th century, the battles between faith and reason, madness and sanity, democracy and aristocracy. an erudite revisiting of a primal myth' The Stage

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Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender is creative nonfiction that takes an unflinching but humorous look at living as a butch in a pink/blue, boy-girl, M/F world. Here's my theory: I've always been a butch. When I was a child, it was called being a "tomboy" (also known as "embarrassing my mother"). Back then, I liked to think I was a boy-girl hybrid, perhaps grown from special heirloom seeds. Later in life, I came out as a lesbian, which explained my fondness for flannel and sensible shoes, as well as my masculine ways. Still, something wasn't quite right. I watched spectator-like as my hair got shorter and my clothes started coming from the opposite side of the department store. When someone called me "sir" for the first time, I realized I had unintentionally crossed over into foreign territory - that sliver of space that exists in the middle place between the absolutes of boy and girl. Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender is for anyone who has ever felt different, especially those who have found themselves living in the gender margins without a rule book. The topic of gender nonconformity is red hot right now as it was recently dubbed "the next civil rights frontier" by Time magazine.

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Have you ever been frustrated, aggravated, irritated, upset, disturbed, annoyed, bothered, perturbed or discouraged when you are trying to write a decent paragraph in the English language, and suddenly found out that you are not sure of the grammar rules, and it is hard to locate that wizard to tell you once and for all whether you should place a comma here or there? You probably look into your dictionary first and scream out loud or yell at the innocent computer screen because the information you are looking for is not there. Do not panic or dread; help is on the way. This book is an attempt to give you a summary of resources when it comes to grammar in laypersons language. With the index in the back of the book, you will be able to easily and effortlessly locate what you want to look up and find the answer right at your fingertips. Speaking from previous English knowledge, skills, practices, understandings, familiarities and know-how, I realize that sometimes the more grammar books you read, the more confused you get. There are tons of grammar books out there, but upon which one can you rely? There are contradictions constantly when you read more than one grammar book. One book will tell you to use an "s" after 2005s to execute plurality; others may not recommend the same. In addition, languages are animate. They change all the time. They can get sick and die, and they can have newly generated sounds and words. Language has a life. Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, English was taught to me at an early age, but it was taught as a foreign language, where there were only a few English classes per week. I did not have the opportunity of being in a bilingual environment. I struggled and studied hard. My parents made sure that I received a great education. English was taught to me by so many teachers and professors from many different countries, some of whom were not native speakers of the English language. I received many different grammar rules that of

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As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity, the friendly voice insisted, "You know, you really must." It was not an argument, but I submitted at once. If one must!You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. I don't say this by way of disparagement. It is better for mankind to be impressionable than reflective. Nothing humanely great-great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives-has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mere words; such words as Glory, for instance, or Pity. I won't mention any more. They are not far to seek. Shouted with perseverance, with ardour, with conviction, these two by their sound alone have set whole nations in motion and upheaved the dry, hard ground on which rests our whole social fabric. There's "virtue" for you if you like!Of course the accent must be attended to. The right accent. That's very important. The capacious lung, the thundering or the tender vocal chords. Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

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In January 2011 I decided to try my next diet. I had been exploring different diets for about 20 years by this point but this next one was different. This one made sense, common sense. I had already been a big proponent of getting back to our roots and getting as natural as possible. I had also recently been exposed to the theory that the Agricultural Age was the beginning of the demise of mankind. Mass producing food just did not seem natural, and when I found that there was a way to eat that supported my beliefs, I was all in. Before I could finish The Paleo Diet by Robb Wolf, I was blasting all over social media about how this was the only way to eat. I was even, for a short while, the "Paleo police" and would criticize people who were not following the "rules" to a tee. Realizing I was being a jerk, I gave up my badge for the Paleo police but I continued making posts and bragging about my progress. I even started taking on personal training clients after taking a break for many years. To me, eating this way was the missing ingredient to my success as a personal trainer. Within six months of going paleo, I lost around 35 pounds, dropped to a weight I had never seen as an adult, and accomplished things I never thought I could do, like run four miles barefoot and do pull-ups and ring dips. The transformation was amazing. Over the years I've received several inquiries from friends and family on Facebook asking how I achieved these results. My advice was simple: eat these foods, don't eat these foods, and read these books. Every single person I gave this advice to, failed miserably. I couldn't understand why when it was exactly how I got results! I would even get a little frustrated (maybe a lot) at the fact that people weren't achieving good results with the advice I was giving them. In my mind, I gave great advice. Then someone pointed out to me that not everyone was like me. Not everyone was a gung-ho, all or nothing, do-it-now type of person. That's when I

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The Allied landings in 1944 had all the prospects for disaster. Churchill thought he would be woken up to be told of massive casualties. Eisenhower prepared a somber broadcast announcing that the enterprise had failed. The specter of failure was always present. After a failed landing the Nazi regime would have regained the ascendant. New, terrifying bombs and rockets were ready to be launched. Long-distance submarines were in the final stage of development. The last million Jews of Europe were listed for deportation and death. Failure at Normandy could have given Hitler the chance of continuing to rule western Europe, particularly if the United States, bloodied and defeated in Normandy, had decided-after two and a half years of focusing on Europe-to turn all its energies to the ever-growing demands of the Pacific, leaving Europe to its own devices. Had that happened, I doubt if I would have been alive to write this book, or free to express my opinions without fear of arrest."-Martin Gilbert

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