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INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS #3: THE EVEN YOUNGER MEMNON / OH COMELY

As you spot your third grey hair in the bathroom mirror, you realise that soon the day will come when you stop counting

You’d always assumed that Desert Island Discs was purely theoretical. The unsmiling men that greet you upon your exit from the recording studio,

Just because something is a pencil sharpener with I WENT APE AT BRISTOL ZOO printed on it doesn’t mean that it can’t also

On a street that you’re never able to find again you enter a shop with no windows. Over the years to come you

To have an adventure is to go somewhere you’ve never gone before. Historically, this was taken in a literal sense – foreign climes

It was clear that we weren’t all going to make it. Something had gone wrong on our way to settle a new land,

The tyranny of popcorn is largely due to good timing. Evidence of its consumption dates back to 4,700 BC Peru, but the snack’s

“Thus was I at once basking in an intense sun, regaling myself with luxurious fruit, reading my favourite Disraeli,” Lady Charlotte Bertie wrote

I suppose I’m a criminal now. After years of cautious adherence to this country’s judicial system, I have stepped outside the law and

It begins—as my fantasies so often do—on an island in the South Pacific. For reasons best left to the imagination, I’ve been gifted