What is freedom?
Is this freedom?
Free to go
“Apologies, but yes, you are free to go.” barked the sergeant from behind the almost closed door, whose covering of paint did nothing to hide the rich golden orange varnish which had at the first been applied to its timber and thus betrayed the not so humble origins of the previous inhabitants of the house.
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The pacific galaxy of languages may be extraordinary
Bure da! Wie geht’s, s’il te plait?
Not all Pharisees remain Pharisees
Last time we considered how Job¹ changed his mind when he met God.
I want to look here at how another man was changed when God met him.
Are you ready for the day that is coming?
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It is well known that an important ingredient in Norwegian culinary preparations is chocolate, but what are the origins of this practice?
We have to delve deeply into the oral traditions of the Lapp and Inuit peoples for the answer.
A typical traditional recipe (Finnbiff – Reinsdyrgryte – Reindeer Stew) prepared for the Norwegian palette may be as follows:
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Ils disent que vous savez quand vous êtes arrivé dans la civilisation pour l’eau, puis on vous donne avec votre café. A Vienne, ils servent un verre d’eau avec votre café.
That of course is nothing to do with the following narrative, but it makes an interesting, if not arresting opening. The incident described in the the following notes arose on a bright sunny day in the early summer of 1982°. It is not an original invention.
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