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Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard III, Act 1 Scene 1

18th March 2023 Going Postal 0

A small confession: my first introduction to this opening soliloquy was as a child on a Saturday afternoon from none other than Arnold Judas Rimmer in Red Dwarf. He and Lister are marooned and, to [more…]

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Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1

4th March 2023 Going Postal 0

Welcome to the second of Crom’s Deep Dives. I was touched by some of your comments on the first of this series and found they motivated me to find the time to commence this second [more…]

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Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard II, Act 3 Scene 2

25th February 2023 Going Postal 0

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs” The first in this series of Deep Dives will look at the language and linguistic devices employed in Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Richard II. First, [more…]

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The Encyclopedia of Lost Languages

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During my recent foray to visit some elderly relatives in Chemnitz, a place formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt (named after that famous German philosopher without whose political theories Herr Hitler would have been an impossibility), and [more…]

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