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Topic History of: Happy Birthday to my favourite person ever. Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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md
Grip was the name of his beloved pet bird who was thought to have inspired Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven".
Pru
Trivial fact: Hard Times was first serialised in two provincial newspapers: it was the Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times.
hedda
indeed.
and the further away you get from his era the more you appreciate how intuitive and perceptive he was quite apart from a fabulous ability to spin a gripping yarn.
Misa
You might just enjoy the first part of The Haunted House as a reminder of how best to deal with fantasists and mischief-makers.
wyot
It is a bleak house indeed which does not raise a toast!