Thanks Dave.
Sounds like the prelude to Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
Roger Collett
Arrowhead Press
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
Jules de Gaultier
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
> Drat. It works in Facebook and I tried it out in the mail before posting -
> try this:
>
> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=414052&c=1
>
> or if not go to http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/ click 'more news' and
> look for a story dated 4th November called 'Time to shelve the book habit'
>
> On 6 November 2010 11:12, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but it's been imprisoned. I can't open the link anyway.
>>
>>
>> Roger Collett
>> Arrowhead Press
>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
>>
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>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>> Jules de Gaultier
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
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>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmmm ...
>>>
>>> historically inapt.
>>>
>>> On 6 November 2010 10:35, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmmm....
>>>> I think this could do with a dose of The Spanish Inquisition.
>>>> "You never expect The Spanish Inquisition!!!"
>>>>
>>>> Roger Collett
>>>> Arrowhead Press
>>>>
>>>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
>>>>
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>>>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>>>> Jules de Gaultier
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
>>>> [log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:36 AM
>>>> Subject: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Scene: A Monty Python launderette which is also a domestic living room.
>>>> On
>>>>
>>>>> a
>>>>> sofa sit Terry Jones and Eric Idle in drag as hair-piled-high housewives
>>>>> with aprons, egg-stained cardigans and rolling pins.
>>>>>
>>>>> Housewife One (con falsetto) : 'I'm sick of all this Jean-Paul Sartre,
>>>>> what's on the box?' (looking at a washing machine)
>>>>> Housewife Two (tweaking moustache, basso profundo) : ' Just Bloody
>>>>> Repeats.
>>>>> As Joyce said ' (voice changing to falsetto) 'History is the nightmare
>>>>> from
>>>>> which I am trying to awake. Or ...'
>>>>> (both in unison): 'It's - Yet Again - The Dissolution of The Monasteries
>>>>> Show' :
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>>>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>>>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
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>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>
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