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May.14.2012
  Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature. W H Auden   It could be said that the industrial/agricultural revolution which lurched into motion in the late 18th century at the time the Berkeley Trilogy begins, is still an experiment in progress. Some might argue...
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Mar.02.2009
We live in a time of “invasion”. A stampeding across boundaries, both personal and national, has grown up in the last  two decades, all in the service of perceived gain. Theft of money and time, of identity, of innocence, even of personality, are commonplace (although the latter is a subject for...
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Feb.12.2009
It's remarkable how often Jane Austen is listed on RR among favourite books and writing influences, and not usually by authors of the historical genre.  As someone who spends a lot of time composing in that idiom, I'm keen to understand what wacky, quirky, slick-living, outward bound, Simpson-...