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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Already Cater Dislike Domestic Instinct Respect Able Scope Understood
I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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