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Funeral For A Friend
I thought a friend of mine had died and one of my first thoughts was of this song. It turns out he’s not dead, at least not as far as I know, though he seemed pretty committed to self-destruction last time I saw him. I hope you’re doing OK, Ecnerret. This song kick’s off Elton… Read more
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The Way Through The Woods
They shut the road through the woodsSeventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones.Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods,And the… Read more
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CitySketch – Essex House
Construction on the Essex House on Central Park South began one day after the stock market crash of 1929 that began the Great Depression. Two years later the hotel opened but since luxury hotels don’t exactly thrive during severe economic downturns, it was only open for a year before the government’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation took… Read more
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