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Peter Mara

Tony Rogers


 

 

Highlights of Issue 80, July 2010
 

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Coming soon to a magazine near you: The Black Beast Follies of 2010.  And only you can stop it.
Go On Gently, Little Bikwil Bet Briggs Encouragement from an old friend.
Anything Goes, by Cole the Obscure Peter Mara Mrs McLean.  Anna Sten.  Lady Mendel.  Names to conjure with  in 1934, but today?
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like Harlish Goop Keeping to the script — Part 2.  A 19th-century Renaissance Man leaves England at the age of seventeen for an extended tour of India, Afghanistan and Iraq — only to get stuck on a rock in Iran.
A Timely Appeal A Small Dinosaur A friendly invitation to FQEs
Web Line Tony Rogers Psst!  How about some free software titles?  You’ll have to hurry, though, ‘cos they’re going fast.
Quintessential Quirky Quotes Various Quotes from Susan Ertz, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker,
Peter Ustinov and Bill Watterson.
From the Back Verandah

 

Fizzgig Healing horoscopes for Übermensch and Sheba sufferers.
 


Anything Goes, by Cole the Obscure
— Peter Mara

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"Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950), famous as an actress, writer and interior designer, married Sir Charles Mendl in 1926. She was only 61. The marriage was front page news in New York. Society (and perhaps even Cole Porter) was a trifle surprised, as she had lived in the home of another brilliant woman, Bessie Marbury, for 34 years – the pair were known as 'The Bachelors'."


A Word in Your Pink Shell-like
— Harlish Goop

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"By now he had developed a reluctance to publish until he had rechecked every source in case it might provide extra ideas. And even when his amended article was written out and ready to go and he could have been looking ahead to its early publication, still he hesitated, hoping instead for further useful correspondence."


Web Line
— Tony Rogers

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"Don’t worry. This is not a hoax: every offering is a genuine one. Some titles are better than others, of course, and some are not the latest version. If you can’t quite decide, the site contains plenty of user comments that should help you assess a title’s merit."


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