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Day: May 29, 2019

On a Wing and A Prayer

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 / venkyninja1976 / 5 Comments

(Photo Credit: Crispina Kemp) He was not taken to either reciting hymns or repeating incantations. His Gods resided between millions of pages in the thousands of books possessed by him. Manifesting in the myriad musty smells wafting out of the pages as he turned them over incessantly.  If he possessed a deified list, on top … Continue reading On a Wing and A Prayer

Berezina – Sylvain Tesson

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 / venkyninja1976 / 2 Comments

Mr. Sylvain Tesson elucidates to the uninitiated the deeper and transcendental meaning of the word “Doing a Berezina” in the French. Usually denoting an astonishingly unfortunate piece of event fro which a protagonist just about evades the inevitable, the phrase usually means: “We made it by a whisker guys, we felt if fly right by … Continue reading Berezina – Sylvain Tesson

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