Terry Gilliam's Faust
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On Friday we went to London, to go to the opera, to see Terry Gilliam's version of Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust , performed by th...
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How wonderful is Wood (festival)
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I awoke at 5am this morning, new song lyrics working their way through my system, so here I am blogging at an unfeasibly early hour. The mus...
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Mayfly
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It's been a trying week with over a hundred student essays to mark - payback time. One poor chap let the following howler get through, i...
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The Bosky Man
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So another Oxford May Morning has been and gone, and a fine day it was. As usual I took on the role of the Bosky Man , a character one half...
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