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“... This is what Gilbert’s painting lessons are for. ‘When I ask what colour’s this and you say Green, don’t laugh that’s exactly how you said it, Green, well I put it to you, what about loden? What about teal or jonquil? Where the hell’s barium?’ It’s a good point, which Catrine takes seriously at first: things ...”

“... first look at the new colony. Underwater, the sea floor ten metres down appeared blurred and all green despite the good visibility. I tried to distinguish contrasting, relieved surfaces, but everything seemed blanketed in green. I suddenly could not believe my eyes: Caulerpa covered everything. It was magnificent and also ...”

“... official report into the Met’s failure to solve the 1987 murder of a private investigator called Daniel Morgan accused the force of ‘institutional corruption’. Morgan was found with an axe in his head in the car park of a South London pub frequented by police officers. Despite four murder investigations and an inquest, no one has been convicted of the ...”

“... convictions like ninepins, and was rightly taken as the showpiece of post-war British philosophy. Daniel Dennett, who was one of Ryle’s students, has spent the last twenty-five years writing about the topic – consciousness – which has always been the great obstacle to the acceptance of Ryle’s non-Cartesian account of mind. Most of this ...”

“... bisect the woman’s face, its two halves connected only by her red lips. The lower half is a pale green crescent, framed by a cascade of blonde hair; the upper section, coloured the same pale purple as her body, is unmistakeably the shape of an erect penis. ‘Girl before a Mirror’ (1932) In limiting themselves to a single year the curators have ...”

“... The winner of the reading competition was one of the Judaean deportees, the magico-mythical Daniel. Not only can Daniel read Aramaic – why ‘the astrologers, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers’ could not remains a mystery – but he goes further, producing a virtuoso display of the art of paronomastics. Mene he ...”

“... he has the hope of moving on to other things. Here’s how the anticipated scene unfolds in On Green Dolphin Street (2001, p. 16). It’s not a French novel. The action centres on the British ambassador’s residence in Washington at the end of the 1950s, and includes an artist who is beguiled by a diplomat’s wife: After lunch, Mary curled up on the ...”

“... odyssey’. Morton Schatzman, who is the author of an interesting book on the 19th-century lunatic Daniel Schreber, has written it in fruitiest Reader’s Digestese, replete with remarks I doubt were ever remarked and dreams I doubt were ever dreamed. Nevertheless, if the style can be stomached, there is plenty of interest in this case-history. Schatzman, an ...”

“... and the main arteries are well supplied with buses. The people are from everywhere. At Willesden Green there’s a shopping centre and a library. Willesden belongs to a part of the city that doesn’t recognise a centre, where everything you need is in easy reach and you can move from suburb to suburb without ever seeing the London you read about in the ...”

“... studied Russian and English lit, and where I too encountered email for the first time – glowing green signals via Pine, accessible from the void at computer terminals in basement rooms. But I was in Oxford, not the US, and there wasn’t much room for theory, and even though what many of my teachers told me seemed totally beside the point, as it does for ...”

“... rabbit roaming the living room, the roughness of the paint marks and the lurid colours (the lime green of the girl’s jumper, the wild purple and pink of the background) undercut any sense of conventional portraiture. The sofa seems to be suspended in mid-air, dissolving into the wall. The pleats on the girl’s skirt and the stripes on the boy’s jacket ...”

“... exciting half hour of my life, under those great vertical 15 second rivers of orange or blue or green lightning, & great skyfulls of blazing thorns, & continuous overhead thunder, with great long swells coming along the gunwales, pouring in on both sides, one man bailing like mad, the rest paddling & yelling, & our sail like a map of the world in giant rips ...”

“... before he died in a Soho rooming-house, Hazlitt published a lengthy essay on a new biography of Daniel Defoe in the Edinburgh Review, where he remarked that in Robinson Crusoe Defoe abandoned the political and religious subjects he addressed in his pamphlets, and confined himself to ‘unsophisticated views of nature and the human heart’. Hazlitt’s ...”

“... a little fitness test to get you in the mood for proper love . . . ? May I suggest a cup of sweet green tea? (ii) Tea’s a trial too. It happens in the blue Venusian afternoon. Fumes of tea-room dissonance. Disharmonies of steam. In slanting mirrors on the walls, converging to the roof, misty nymphs demist and mist again. The Mekon’s eyes reflect an ...”

“... dramatic writing overlapped, as a glance at the careers of Ben Jonson or Fulke Greville or Samuel Daniel or Thomas May reminds us. Hayward’s book was a work to tempt a dramatist. Manning, its editor, who has no case to make about the connection between the book and the stage, nevertheless remarks on the ‘dramatic architecture’ of the book, on ...”