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My interests are football; rugby; cricket; Dostoyevskiy; Wittgenstein; Proust; Feyerabend; James Joyce; UK politics; crime fiction; science; bitter; and popular music.

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Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Biography: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881): Life and Work.Before Prison.Dostoyevsky was born the son of a doctor, Mikhail Andreyevich, and Marya Fyodorovna, which explains the forenames of himself and his brother Mikhail (b.1820). Both brothers attended boarding school, but only Fyodor was admitted to the St. Petersburg Acad... More..

Arts & Humanities > Writing Resources Book reviews: Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
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People who write hectoring books on punctuation (well, Lynne Truss, to be specific) generally have little sense of the purpose and role of rules. Sure, they may give a little explanation as to why punctuation is necessary, but, come the substance of the book - the rules of grammar, this will be forgotten. Instead, they will b... More..

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