1. "If you're not loose in the trousers, you might as well not be here."

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  2. There is a Jim Croce video in this link roundup.

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  3. Hannibal is a television series based upon the popular novels of Thomas Harris. Each episode lasts for under an hour, with the shortest lasting 41 minutes, and the longest 44. There were 3 seasons comprising 39 total episodes, many named after a food item or meal component (usually, but not exclusively, containing meat.)

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  4. "The Goblin Market," Christina Rossetti.

    I thought it was about goblins.

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  5. MR. HALE : my dear Margaret
    I am afraid I have some bad news
    I have resigned my post in the Church of England
    I can no longer affirm its doctrine and we must leave our beloved home at once

    MARGARET : my God
    do you mean to say you have lost your faith?

    MR. HALE : no

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  6. Previously by Teri Vlassopoulos: Odds and Omens: Superstition and IVF

    After my daughter was born, I thought about getting her astrological chart done. It would be fun for her to have the information when she was older, if only to roll her eyes at her mother. I realized, though, that maybe it wasn’t really a present for her.

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  7. To: [ All :Hogwarts]
    From: Luna Lovegood <[email protected]>
    Subject: classified wizard Benghazi reports

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  8. Really, just some A+++ links.

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  9. Name: Constance Chatterley, a bonny Scotch trout of a lady, and Clifford Chatterley, baronet and member of the intelligentsia
    Location: In the soulless ugliness of the coal-and-iron Midlands
    Size: Massive enough for Connie to conduct an affair in her third-floor parlour without much trouble
    Years lived in together: Since the autumn of 1920, after the end of all the death and horror (the pity of war, etc.); owned

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  10. Specifically, its host, historian Suzannah Lipscomb.

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  11. "It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be gravy, and all shall be gravy, and all manner of thing shall be gravy."

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  12. This time last year I called the cops on my husband. I can’t completely remember the path that led to that, not the medium-term path. Long-term, he’d been prone to violent, scary fits of temper and self-harm on and off for years. Short-term, I’d gone to bed on an evening when going to bed looked like—was meant to look like—an act of war.

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  13. One of the best thing about medieval romances is the liberal interpretations of Holy Writ found therein. What did Jesus love? Battle and don't worry about it .

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  14. Good morning, my treasures.

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  15. The walk from the subway to the Society of Illustrators isn’t long. So when I say that my apprehension grew with every step I took along Lexington Avenue, I mean that it expanded rapidly, like the chorus of a Pixies song.

    It was early autumn, and just starting to get cold in Manhattan. I wore black sweatpants, a jean jacket, a purple scarf. Soon I wouldn’t be wearing anything at all.

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