It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
ALAN BENNETTI suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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