‘No. Listen to me. God's confidence in Abraham was not total. Let me hammer out my meaning.’
A humming as of bees, distant.
– But the Master, Eleazer son of Eleazer, in his commentary of 1611 said –
– That Akhiba, may his name shine in glory, had been mistaken –
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‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
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‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
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Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United.
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John Patrick McHugh on playing Gaelic football.
‘Papa embodied, as did every corner of our Paris home, the tenor, the prodigality and glow of Jewish-European and Central-European emancipation.’
‘Come Christmas, sounds mix and multiply. And are shot through with smells.’
‘His requests did stretch the resources, almost all-encompassing, of the sound-archive. But that is part of the game.’
‘At moments Hitler’s head brushed against Gideon’s cheek like a clump of wet leaves.’
‘The Roma understand that a home doesn’t need axles and wheels to be “Gypsy”, and we look for other signs.’
Damian Le Bas introduces photographs taken by the Herak family.
