Creatures of habit,Day after dayGo about life,The same old way. Nothing disturbsTheir orderly routineAll must be neat,And all must be clean. They’re making their listsAnd checking them twice,Trying to make sureTheir work will suffice. Impatient by natureThey don’t suffer foolsGladly or otherwiseBecause of the rules. A place for everythingFor all there’s a placeDon’t touch the…

Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” though first published in 1813 was in fact written in 1796-97 and originally entitled “First Impressions”. It has consistently been Jane Austen’s most popular novel and portrays life in the genteel but rural English society of the late 18th and early 19th century. It tells in a memorable way the…

In what could be called the Caucasian equivalent of the movie “Ray” we now have the bi-op of the recently deceased Johnny Cash on film. The star role is played effectively and accurately by Joaquin Phoenix, and equally effectively co-stars Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash. The movie runs over two hours, allowing the story…

Now that we are well and truly into the Harry Potter saga (and to judge from the sales for this one over its first week, lots more people are paying money in order to pay attention), it will be well if we take stock of the story and its relative merits. But in order to…

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