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'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.' Robert Frost #travelquotes
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RT @tweeter_anita: Thanks @Dauntbooks for a wonderful packed room last night and superb shop window. With @DalrympleWill https://t.co/4xDIaAi6Kh
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RT @ElandPublishing: Thanks for this @halfmanhalfb00k - new #Normanlewis review @normanlewiswrit https://t.co/qohJgQc5VK -
RT @ElandPublishing: “There is a village where we are going where they worship a kind of worm.” – #NormanLewis, An Empire of the East
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The panel discussion from first screening of @naples44film, featuring Michael Palin, @thejulianevans, John Hatt and… https://t.co/uAtM57h400
It seemed apt that I should discover Juliet living in Russia when I was there. And apt that rather than living in Moscow like the vast majority of foreigners, she was living in Peredelkino, a retreat from the city where wooden dachas sheltered improbably but cosily, like mushrooms, in the all-encompassing forest. Like Churchill’s description of the country itself, she had always been to me something of ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’ . . .