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If people would only leave me alone with their damned faces. — Thomas Gainsborough, revolutionary portrait painter who would rather have been painting landscapes

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I have assigned myself the task of listening to Bill Bryson‘s A Short History of Nearly Everything by the time of next Saturday night’s lecture at the Mercantile.This book sits currently (in my mental bookcase if not my physical bookcase) with Richard Dawkins and my fancy anniversary illustrated copy of The Origin of the Species. Continue reading More books