Author Archives: odeboyz

Enough is enough

Posted on September 9, 2021 by odeboyz
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An implausible anecdote about Marcel Proust

Posted on September 9, 2021 by odeboyz

“…Proust himself had said that he wrote the opening and closing paragraphs of À la recherche one after the other, and then just filled in the other 1.2 million words in the middle.” Salmon, Peter. An Event, Perhaps (p. 110). … Continue reading →

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Mark Twain on Stupidity

Posted on September 6, 2021 by odeboyz
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Women Always Win

Posted on September 6, 2021 by odeboyz

“While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end … Continue reading →

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A cunning professor

Posted on September 1, 2021 by odeboyz

At Sydney University, there were four students studying Organic Chemistry. They were excellent students achieving “A’s”. They were so confident they decided to go to Canberra and party with some friends the weekend before their finals. However, they slept through … Continue reading →

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The Political Education of Cassius Clay

Posted on September 1, 2021 by odeboyz

Cassius Clay lived in segregated Kentucky during his boyhood. Segregation is, quite simply, institutional racism. He became Olympic champion in 1960 in Rome aged 18, where he defeated white men. On his return, the grim reality of segregated Kentucky became … Continue reading →

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A slightly different Peppa Pig storyline

Posted on August 30, 2021 by odeboyz
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Leonard Cohen’s Wisdom

Posted on August 30, 2021 by odeboyz

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.“

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From The Third Rock from the Sun*

Posted on August 26, 2021 by odeboyz

“I think we’ve underestimated the life on this planet. The people have so much courage. Here they are hurtling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out … Continue reading →

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Film Review: East is East (Channel 4 catch-up) (1999)

Posted on August 26, 2021 by odeboyz

This film is so brilliant it’s hard to know where to begin. Humour It’s a northern film (Salford) replete with hard hitting wit. There are no ‘no-go’ areas. The film is set in appalling housing with seven children and two … Continue reading →

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