Saturday, May 31, 2025

Dallam travels to Constantinople

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‘The 11th day, being Tuesday, we carried our instrument over the water to the Grand Signor’s Court, called the Seraglio, and there in his mo...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

By golly, what a day!

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‘By golly, what a day! It is seldom that days which one has anticipated in imagination for weeks or months ever measure up to one’s expectat...
Friday, May 23, 2025

I was rather incredulous

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‘He explained his call to my astonishment that Beadle, Tatum, and I were to be the co-recipients of the Nobel prize in medicine this year. I...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Young Boswell in London

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‘It is very curious to think that I have now been in London several weeks without ever enjoying the delightful sex, although I am surrounded...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Weeds don’t spoil

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‘My [90th] birthday. [. . .] It is unusual, I believe, for persons of this age to retain possession of their faculties, or so much of them a...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

We can conquer the world

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‘Beginning with Lublin, the Jews in the General Government [Poland] are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is a pretty barbaric one...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Folly, ignorance, idleness

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‘Early in life, at the age of fifteen, I had commenced the dangerous habit of keeping a journal and this I maintained for ten years. The vol...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

My heart beats faster

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Eighty years ago today Kim Malthe-Bruun, a brave young Dane, only 21 years of age, was executed by the Nazis for being involved with the Dan...