Seeing my serious Chinese-made firearm, Haruki Murakami once said to me: ‘You’re the only writer I know who has ...
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Instead of sheets – dirty tablecloths.’ The notebooks of Anton Chekhov are full of enigmatic observations such as this, the unexplained details that suggest a whole scene, short story or character.
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The Way of St Augustine runs from Ramsgate to Canterbury, a walk of just under twenty miles across open country.
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