"Since the dawn of time, the Jew and the Nazi have been enemies."
It is a gripping period drama with wry humour, apparently.
Although not musical (it does have some music) the book is a kind of "Cabaret" of post war Germany.
Wait, what?
2: It is also apparently by one Lionel Davidson.
I have several questions.
One, are the Lionels, Davies and Davidson, the same person?
Two, is that picture of the dude with the hat a picture of Lionel or Philip?
Three, assuming Lionel Davies and Lionel Davidson are the same person, did Philip Davidson ever go by Philip Davies?
Four, when does web design get back to its roots?
I don't know what 5 and 6 are on about.
I'm sure keeping track of the fonts and centering and succession and so on were enough of a burden without keeping track of author names.
I didn't keep track of the fonts at all.
That's absolutely true. You have no excuse, then.
I dated Willis's daughter.
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How can I pass up the opportunity to admit someone to grad school was an ice cream specialist at his restaurant job?
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When I were a wee lad, I'd read Puffin books (Penguin's junior sibling) that had selection lists like these at the end, together with--on the very last page--an order form. They'd list the books and opposite them would be astonishingly low prices: 15p for the first book, 10p for five books, 4p for each additional book. Amazing! I never ordered any because I had no English money. (Or indeed any other form of money.) It took me an embarrasingly long time to figure out the obvious about the prices.
Lionel Davidson is, by the way, the author of the children's book Under Plum Lake, which is one of the most intense and disturbing reading experiences available to a young person. It was out of print for about 30 years until very very recently, and now is only available in a shitty edition full of mistakes. But I recommend it in that creepy you-absolutely-must way that makes one not really want to even read a thing.
13: I coveted so many of those books. Only a few of them seemed to make it across the Irish Sea.
What was the obvious - postage charges?
12: Not everyone pays for their undergrad degree working at a particle accelerator.
I am suffused with warm feelings for Backus-Naur form.
Is the basis of the OP's sentences 3 through 5 that a "selection of books" can only be the full text of the books themselves, not a listing of books someone has selected? Because I would dispute that.
I coveted so many of those books. Only a few of them seemed to make it across the Irish Sea.
What was the obvious - postage charges?
Presumably, that the books were rather old editions. A cheap paperback in the early 70s might have been only 10p.
Lionel Davidson is, by the way, the author of the children's book Under Plum Lake, which is one of the most intense and disturbing reading experiences available to a young person.
Yeah! Kind of like Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race rewritten for kids. My inability to avoid confusing it with Under Milk Wood caused me a lot of avoidable puzzlement.
16.2: I'm guessing that the lower prices are per book, not that you could buy an increasing number of books for a decreasing total amount, but perhaps I'm underestimating Child Gonerill.
"Making Good Again" is actually very good. Davidson was a thoughtful writer about Jewishness -- though "A long Way to Shiloh" now seems ridiculously optimistic -- and a very good thriller writer, whose thrillers are both literate and thrilling. "The Rose of Tibet" is wonderfully counterfactual.