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Jun.12.2011
September 15, 2010, Kew, Richmond, Surry, England: Touring: I’ve been here for two days and, it’s odd, but I hardly feel I’m in a foreign country. Of course, the busy people of London speak English. Thank God and the Queen for that! No, it’s just that everything feels familiar, as if I’d stepped...
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Jun.10.2011
Kathryn Hunter, an actress best known for Shakespeare roles such as Cleopatra and a female King Lear, is cast as an ape in ``Kafka's Monkey.'' The play is coming to the end of its run at London's Young Vic theater. Photograph: Keith Pattison/ Young Vic via Bloomberg.
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Jun.06.2011
LONDON JOURNAL, Part 1 by Kim Trotto September 13, 2010, 6:45 p.m., Newark Liberty Airport: Travel Day: My husband and I are on our way to England. Or the UK as the posh set would have it. Going there has been a longing of mine from way back. We’ve already been through the confusion of checking in...
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May.27.2011
There are a number of out of the way places that Beckett can choose to pass the night before his meeting with Posh William out in the wilds of Berkshire.
He can hide in a multiplex twenty-four hour cinema in Leicester Square, or in some hole in the wall restaurant in nearby China Town, or then...
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May.25.2011
Beckett stands in the pitch blackness of the garden, with a fistful of gravel and stares up at what he hopes is Fuscia’s window. There is no moon and the only light is a faint, milky leakage from the street.
He throws a quick prayer down between his feet and overarms the gravel up at the window....
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May.22.2011
He gets the bus back down the M1, killing a half a bottle of vodka along the way, a headful of Clash on the old walkman. He gets off at Marble Arch and walks up past the park and into Notting Hill Gate. He stops at the bolthole just long enough to drop off his bag of freshly laundered gear - thanks...
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May.21.2011
Posh William nods furiously and Beckett slowly removes his hand from his face.
In the end they find a small, frosted bathroom window that isn’t locked and with Posh William’s size sevens trampling all over Beckett’s head and shoulders, the little git eventually manages to get the window open....
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May.20.2011
Not that I necessarily agree with everything on this list (how can I, having not read them all) but I do like the idea. Perhaps some other cities can also be chosen. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 10 of the best books set in LondonMalcolm Burgess, publisher of the City-Lit series, selects his...
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May.19.2011
Beckett is just coming out of the bathroom after a bit of a post-coital wash and brush-up, when he hears Posh William’s clarion.
“Hair lair! Anyone abite? Fewsh?”
Fuscia has her nose in a geography text book so fast Beckett finds he somehow suddenly knows the average annual rainfall for The...
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May.13.2011
Indeed, a week later, on a sunny afternoon, there she is, right there in their chic, French farmhouse-style, designer kitchen, the sister of Posh William, Fuscia by name.
Beckett is trying to shake from his head the remnants of the night before’s speed-twisted, psychedelic cobwebs, and accepts...
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