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James Joyce on Treasure

By Nico Mara-McKay | Friday, 9 April 2010 | 1 minute of reading

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: –A day of dappled seaborne clouds. The phrase and the day and the scene harmonised in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure […]

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Save the Words: Vampirarchy

By Nico Mara-McKay | Saturday, 5 September 2009 | 1 minute of reading

Mes amis, I have adopted a lovely word in attempts to save it from extinction. The word I adopted is vampirarchy, which refers to a set of ruling persons comparable to vampires. ((Is this a favourable association or not? I can’t tell.)) It is now my solemn duty to “use this word as frequently as possible from

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