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ramonmercado
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The postie is reading your copy.
AgProv
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I know how this works. it'll be resealed, leaving no trace, and delivered on Monday. Or else in a plastic bag marked "damaged in transit".
Paul_Exeter
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London Uncanny, eh?
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/london-uncanny-9781350424036/
Surely not an attempt to piggyback on BBC R4 and Danny's Uncanny? *sarcastic winky thing*
AgProv
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Arrived this morning (Tuesday). first thoughts: shame, Merrily Harpur is somebody I remember more for her cartooning work than for Forteana.
First impression: the Chaos Magnet short on page 9, in which the LAPD meets the Keystone Cops. They raid a suspicious address that's using too much electricity, and discover it houses a hospital MRI scanner. Chaos ensues as they realise why you do not take metal things anywhere near those powerful magnets. And coppers in full "kick the door down and do a lift" mode tend to have lots of metal about their persons.
Workings of a horrible mind - if I wanted to start a cannabis farm in Los Angeles, I'd try to rent the basement underneath an MRI scanner, or the premises immediately adjacent. One, it would mask high electricity use, and two, after the bad publicity and fiasco, the LAPD should be dissuaded from going anywhere near an MRI machine and will asume the high electricity use is down to them...
First impression: the Chaos Magnet short on page 9, in which the LAPD meets the Keystone Cops. They raid a suspicious address that's using too much electricity, and discover it houses a hospital MRI scanner. Chaos ensues as they realise why you do not take metal things anywhere near those powerful magnets. And coppers in full "kick the door down and do a lift" mode tend to have lots of metal about their persons.
Workings of a horrible mind - if I wanted to start a cannabis farm in Los Angeles, I'd try to rent the basement underneath an MRI scanner, or the premises immediately adjacent. One, it would mask high electricity use, and two, after the bad publicity and fiasco, the LAPD should be dissuaded from going anywhere near an MRI machine and will asume the high electricity use is down to them...
AgProv
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The Netta Fornario thing. Wasn't there a case not all that long ago, of another New Agey type going up into the Scottish Highlands to mediate and commune with the Numinious, maybe in the same general area, and being found some time later having died of exposure? As I recall, she was involved in that rather loopy Breatharian movement, so anorexia could have contributed to her demise.
Also... Clive Bloom devotes four pages to Mysterious London, and the concept of the city having its mysterious, occult, gothic, shadow side. He explores this via literary references spanning a couple of centuries and these are copiously sprinkled throughout, so as to prove the contention.
And he doesn't mention Ben Aaronovich's take on this idea, even once? The Rivers of London series? Ah well, maybe these are too recent and too popular to count as English Literature...
Also... Clive Bloom devotes four pages to Mysterious London, and the concept of the city having its mysterious, occult, gothic, shadow side. He explores this via literary references spanning a couple of centuries and these are copiously sprinkled throughout, so as to prove the contention.
And he doesn't mention Ben Aaronovich's take on this idea, even once? The Rivers of London series? Ah well, maybe these are too recent and too popular to count as English Literature...
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