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    Currently, the TV page.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Currently, the TV page.

    Marco.
    That's a new name for a scuddy
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    The real great escape is my new audio book. Gonna get the kindle companion if its not too dear too.... Great book already and wtitten in a documentary style. These guys had grit
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    Black Heart's by Jim Frederick - very sobering.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Heart.../dp/023075208X

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    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Heike-...e+of+the+heike

    I've just started Royall Tyler's translation of Heike Monogatari [The Tale of the Heike, Viking 2012] a samurai epic compiled form a variety of sources [pre-14th Century] recounting the Genpei War during which the Heike and Genji clans for fought for control of Japan. The work's central theme is the impermanence of existence and the futility of pride and power. I came to this book after watching Masaki Kobayashi's film 'Kwaidan'[1964], as the third ghost story 'Hoichi the Earless' depicts a part of the Tale of the Heike dealing with the Battle of Dan-no-ura [1185] and the final destruction of the Heike.

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    Genesis (Extinction Point Series Book 4) Paul Antony Jones - Not bad not bad
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    Quote Originally Posted by Landloper View Post
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Heike-...e+of+the+heike

    I've just started Royall Tyler's translation of Heike Monogatari [The Tale of the Heike, Viking 2012] a samurai epic compiled form a variety of sources [pre-14th Century] recounting the Genpei War during which the Heike and Genji clans for fought for control of Japan. The work's central theme is the impermanence of existence and the futility of pride and power. I came to this book after watching Masaki Kobayashi's film 'Kwaidan'[1964], as the third ghost story 'Hoichi the Earless' depicts a part of the Tale of the Heike dealing with the Battle of Dan-no-ura [1185] and the final destruction of the Heike.

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    An excellent film - the Japanese do creepy 'horror' like no others (IMO).
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