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Eliot Wilson's avatar

Garret energy is an admirable quality. All the romance and self-sacrifice of the artistic beau idée without actually, you know, having to live in a garret.

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Rupert Stubbs's avatar

Too much Shelley is indeed a slog, but Ozymandias is the only poem I know by heart. Not just for its brevity, vividly imagery or the cracking twist at the end - but mainly because memorising it was a punishment set by a prefect at school. I read Other Men’s Flowers with abject shame…

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Jimmy Nicholls's avatar

I'm rather bemused by Diamond's claim that: “It is difficult or impossible for a woman to produce enough milk for a two-year-old and also for a newborn.” Perhaps it is true that a woman can't produce enough breast milk for both, but a two year old is easily capable of eating most solids, with milk is a supplement. Many modern women breastfeed multiple children for years.

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John Wright's avatar

The Diamond book has been sitting on my shelves for a good few years. I started it but never finished it. Maybe now is the time.

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Jack French's avatar

'old people are often valued more highly in the West because they function as walking information storage units'

This seems to be the opposite of what you're trying to say.

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Jon's avatar

"than in the West" I suspect

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