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Nastassja Kinski About to Eat a Phallic Strawberry

Rereading 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'

May 30th 2017
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Saturday, March 25, 2017 I've just finished Hardy's 'Tess' for the third or fourth time. When I last read it, I was probably in my thirties; now I am sixty-five. Recently I’ve reread several of Hardy’s major novels – 'The Mayor of Casterbridge’, 'The Return of the Native’ and 'Jude the Obscure’. All of them, with the ... read more
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Kevin Mulqueen
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Kevin Mulqueen
I've been teaching English for 48 years - in England, Egypt, Tanzania, Argentina, Venezuela, Ghana and now Vietnam. At 71, I'm still going strong and have no wish to retire. I enjoy my job, which gives me plenty of time to relax and travel. In toto, I've visited 66 countries. I'm married to a Vietnamese woman and have been living in Ho Chi Minh City since 2001. Outside of work I am a chess fanatic (Tanzanian National Champion in 1991), devotee of blues and jazz music, imbiber of fine malt whiskies (especially from Islay), bibliophile (Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Brian Moore, Philip Larkin, Di... full info
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