A sheep in wolf's clothing.
When I was in my teen years in my home town of Minehead there was a place I sometimes went that felt, to me, like a walk on the wild side. It was a pub called “The Carlton Plume of Feathers” and it had a reputation for being a dark, sinister portal to the underworld. That’s what I was looking for.
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When I was a kid I got sick and had to be hospitalized for a few days. My mum gave me a book to read called Dolphin Island. This book transported me to an idealistic paradise.
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11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001
The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people were always asking him what he was looking so worried about.
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
(Isaiah 42:23-25)
In a his book called “Blueprint for a Cell: The Nature and Origin of Life” Nobel Laureate Christian DeDuve demonstrates conclusively that all of life is based on cellular construction.
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Matty (Headwind) 