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Jan.31.2009
'An Interview with Pat Guppy' for 'Her Ladyshipness Magazine'Questions posed by Hyacinth Bootley-Smythe
Q: If you aren't able to persuade the postmaster to allow for the mixing of your husband's ashes with the postal ink, and have to fall back on having commemorative stamps produced, do you have...
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Jan.28.2009
'An Interview with Pat Guppy' for 'Her Ladyshipness Magazine'
Questions posed by Hyacinth Bootley-Smythe
Q: You chose to have a quiet funeral, with only family and close friends attending. Why was that?
A: Well, as you can imagine, I am such an incredibly popular and well-loved local personage that...
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Jan.26.2009
'An Interview with Pat Guppy' for 'Her Ladyshipness Magazine'Questions posed by Hyacinth Bootley-Smythe
Q: Firstly, I'd like to offer my condolences for the loss of your husband. Perhaps you could tell us a little about your husband?
A: Benjamin was a good and honest man, loved by everyone who...
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Jan.08.2009
Pat Dillon's novel The Last Best Thing is by far one of the funniest satires of financial bubbles, particularly the dot com bubble of the late 1990s.
Dillon satirizes J.P. McCorwin or J.P., head of a start-up who like many heads of Silicon Valley companies is charismatic and legendary. J.P.s...
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Jan.06.2009
Referring to my neighbours, Richard asked, here, 'Do you feel able to say what the worst thing they ever did was?'
I have a lot to work with, so this took some thought. I couldn't choose just one thing, so I went for three. Third place would have to go to my neighbours' attempts to squash me under...
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Jan.04.2009
I've been an avid collector of antiques for a number of years, and one of the things you learn when you collect antiques is that one man's rubbish is another man's treasure. I'd never, however, taken this entirely literally until the first time I saw Mr N, my delightful neighbour, up to his elbows...
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Dec.28.2008
Zuckerman Unbound recapitulates the post-publication notoriety/misery Nathan Zuckerman experiences in the wake of releasing his novel, Carnovsky (a stand-in for Portnoy's complaint.) Progressively, he detaches himself from his third wife, his New York anonymity, his dream that he'll be rescued...
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Dec.26.2008
Yesterday, whilst waiting for the Brussels sprouts to boil, inhaling the aroma of a Quorn roast in the oven, and listening to Bing Crosby sing about peace on earth and good will towards men, I was visited by the ghost of Christmas past and he gave me cause to wince a little. It's not that...
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Dec.23.2008
Thomas Jefferson said 'Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.'
There isn’t anything terribly funny about living above, below or alongside nuisance neighbours, but the individuals themselves, being typically quite ridiculous, can be the source of a good...
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Nov.26.2008
To Whom this May Concern;
I'm writing in response to the Hedge Fund analyst position you currently have posted on Craigslist. I am very interested in this position because from what I understand there is a substantial amount of money to be made through hedge funds. Now, I don't actually know what...
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