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... Light & Dark: The Awakening of the Mageknight By Daniel M. Fife Published by Daniel M. Fife ... ... Edited by Dennis De Rose Copyright 2011 Daniel M. Fife ISBN: 978-0-9853247-1-1 ... ... your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,p... ...amily and friends for serving as support and inspiration.Copyright © 2012 Daniel M. Fife All rights reserved. CONTENTS 1 A New Face ... ...anny heard his mother call as she retreated down the hall. Hervoice sounded muffled from the distance, yet, still able to force his eyes open. Grumbl... ...e distance, yet, still able to force his eyes open. Grumbling, Danny drove himself from the warm comfort of his soft bed.Throwing the covers off, he ... ...rustration getting the better of him. He yanked his favorite white printed T-shirt from the hamper and grabbedthe new pair of khaki shorts, leaving t... ...th grade. Thebeginnings of a smile creased his cheeks the more he thought about it. Peoplewould look at him differently now. The smile widened; Danny ... ...e cities coming into view,passing them with interest, trying to guess the amount of people that inhabitedeach one. Time seemed to slow as the combina...

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...th a little rice, or chained to trees like monkeys to their cage-posts. “I once saw,” says Fra Bartolomeo, about A.D. 1780, “five natives suspended from a tree in a forest near Ambalapusha, on account of the supposed crime of killing a cow.” Again he says : “At Quilon, I saw a native of the caste of the Shanars hanging on a gallows for having stolen three cocoanuts in th...

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...Commentary PREFACE 1. THE COUNTRY— DESCRIPTIVE 2. THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION 3. THE PULAYARS 4. VEDAR 5. KURAVARS 6. THE HILL TRIBES 7. PARIAHS 8. ILAVARS 9. SHANARS 10. POTTERS 11. PANDARAMS 12. MALAYALAM SUDRAS 13. THE ROYAL FAM...

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...IFE in TRAVANCOREThe REV. SAMUEL MATEER, F.L.S. With commentary by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONSNATIVE LIFE in TRAVANCORE ... ...to 2 Volumes to facilitate ease of reading. With commentary byVED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS Aaradhana, DEVE... ...ICTORIA INSTITUTIONS can be bought/downloaded from the VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS website www.victoriainstitutions.com ... ... 1251. THE COUNTRY— DESCRIPTIVE 1292. THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION 1513. THE PULAYARS ... ...re insight into what were the realities ofthe social living conditions of the peoples of the geographical area known to theoutside world as the Indian... ...cture of the kingdom of Travancore. Most of the generalthemes mentioned about people behaviour and mental attitudes can bementioned as the common atti... ...rchitecture, and carried in procession on the shoulders of men, with drum and fife,beating of tom-toms, masquerading, and other mummeries. Some of the... ...cal sound. Various wind instruments are used, resembling respectively our fife, clarionet,horns, trumpets, and bagpipe drones. Reed pipes are in u...

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...PREFACE In 1894, equipped with a set of anthropometric Instruments obtained on loan from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, I commenced an investigation of the tribes of the Nilgiri hills, the Todas, Kotas, and Badagas, bringing down on myself the unofficial criticism that "anthropological research at high altit...

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... First published in 1909 With commentary by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS Aaradhana, DEVERKOVI... ...uthern India' is in the public domain. However, the Commentary written by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS is not. All rights reserved. No unauthorise... ...ions of all books published by VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS can be bought/downloaded from the VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS website www.victoriainstitutions.com ... ...ians’has been done by many others of those times. It is quite certain that the people andadministrators in Great Britain did have an impression that t... ... Malabar (Marumakkathaya)Thiyyas? I have heard a contention that this group of people are immigrants fromthe Tian Shan Mountain regions of Kazakhstan.... ...ioned that this art form was a contribution of Parasurama to the first groupof people he brought in as Brahmins. I find a contention in this book that... ...e track tothe starting-point, was preceded by the Koraga band playing on drum, fife and cymbals,Holeyas armed with staves and dancing, and a man holdi...

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.... A beat later there is another crack! Another splash! ABE whips around. He sees, a few feet out, what at first appears to be a human arm reaching up from a gurgling eddy—deaden spidery fingers groping. He focuses his eyes upon it: the pressure stops cold as we see it is merely a gnarled branch. ABE exhales. Then, as driftwood is proving scarce on the island, he breaks off...

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...THE PLACE And Ten Other Stories from the Region BetweenOTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHORLegends of the Flashback, B... ... Algernon Blackwood And Ten Other Stories from the Region Between by Wayne Kyle ... ...information storage andretrieval system without express written permission from the author. This ebook islicensed for your personal enjoyment only. Th... ...rsonal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold orgiven away to other people. If you would like to share this book with anotherperson, please pur... ... to change that. Because my thankless job is to still sell newspapers to people who can get every- thing off the Internet for free. Because the co... ...cause you write in big, looping spirals (spins his arms wildly), which people seem to like, especially those people who hand out the little gold... ...eady getting in the car, turning the ignition—revving the engine as Barney Fife rushed to my door and beganyanking the handle—which I’d locked—putting...

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...r 1The History of England from the Accession of James the 3Second - Volume 3I... ... 671 Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England from theAccession of James the Second - Volume 3 ... ... Volume 3 2 The History of England from the Accession of James the SecondVolume III(Chapters XI-XVI)by Thomas ... ...dtholdership. But all suchmutterings were drowned by the acclamations of a people proud of thegenius and success of their great countryman. A day of t... ...an account has come down to us. We read in the most ancient ofbooks that a people bowed to the dust under a cruel yoke, scourged totoil by hard taskma... ...e stocks without requiring stronger evidence than that on which theEnglish people had pronounced their King guilty of the basest and mostodious of all... ...m the hills; that he was master of the wholecountry beyond the Forth; that Fife was up to join him; that in threedays he would be at Stirling; that in...

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... 1The History of England, from the Accession of James the 3Second - Volume 5I... ... 262 Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England, from theAccession of James the Second - Volume 5 ... ... Volume 5 2 The History of England from the Accession of James the Secondby Thomas Babington MacaulayVolume V(... ...army should exist without danger to the rightsboth of the Crown and of the people. One class of politicians wasnever weary of repeating that an Aposto... ...royed the noble commonwealthsof Greece? What had enslaved the mighty Roman people? What hadturned the Italian republics of the middle ages into lordsh... ...y thousand regular troops? If, on the other hand, thespirit of the English people was such that they would, with little or notraining, encounter and d... ... aMontpelier. Nor had any of Paterson's dupes considered how colonistsfrom Fife or Lothian, who had never in their lives known what it was tofeel the ...

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... Introduction. Bibliography and Links. The First Age, From Adam to The Flood. The Second Age, After The Flood. 2664 BCE. The Thrird Age. The Battle of Moytura. The Wooing of Etain. The Battle of Cnucha. Fin mac Cumhail.l The Ynglinga Saga. Vikings? On the Volga. The Des...

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... THE MATTER OF BRITAIN A collection of materiel from primary sources telling the early history of ... ...n. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONBIBLIOGRAPHY AND LINKSThe First Age, from Adam to the Flood.The Second Age, After the Flood.2664 BCE T... ...tacus. Boedicea. The Battle of Airtech Táin Bó Cúailnge Tain from the Book of Leinster Pliny on Britain Pliny ... ...left out the wonderfull History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffery ofMonmouth. Many people, much more learned than I, have condemned it as a work of ... ... from him, andbecame full of his children and his descendants. And thus was it first peopled,according to the Romans. From the conquest of Britus to ... ...Nimrod's Tower. THE BOOK OF INVASIONS Magog, son of Iafeth, of his progeny are the peoples who came to Irelandbefore the Gaedil: to wit Partholan s.... ...onguewill deliver in any difficult case, it will resolve the matter until the end of fife." 141. So Loch was spared. Then he chanted "The Decree of F...

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...A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn seeks to present an alternate interpretation of the history of the United States. A...

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...Thank God 9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom 10. The Other Civil War 11. Robber Barons And Rebels 12. The Empire and the People 13. The Socialist Challenge 14. War Is the Health of the State 15. Self-help in Hard Times 16. A People's War? 17. "Or Does It Explode?" 18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam 19. Surprises 20. The Seventies: Unde...

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...T E S H O W A R D Z I N NA People's History of the United StatesPeople's History of the ... ...& Row,and Roslyn Zinn. To Akwesasne Notes, Mohawk Nation, for the passage from Ila Abernathy'spoem. To Dodd, Mead & Company, for the passage from "W... ...y'spoem. To Dodd, Mead & Company, for the passage from "We Wear the Mask" from7;he Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunhar. To Harper & Row, for "Inc... ...e Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunhar. To Harper & Row, for "Incident" from On These I Stand by Countee Cullen.Copyright 1925 by Harper & Row, Pub... ...pression 1994British Library Cataloguing in Publication DataZinn, Howard A people's history of the United States. 1. United States-History I. Title 9... ...10. The Other Civil War1 1. Robber Barons and Rebels12. The Empire and the People13. The Socialist Challenge14. War Is the Health of the State15. Self... ...One of these veteranswas Luke Day, who arrived the morning of court with a fife-and-dfimcorps, still angry with the memory of being locked up in debto... ...l granted, so Shays and his menmoved through the square, drums banging and fifes blowing. As theymarched, their ranks grew. Some of the militia joined... ... and plate. . . . One little fellow had a drumand another had a fife. . . . We carried banners that said: . . . "We wanttim...

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...by Frederick Douglass (1849) Four Documents on Disaffection in the South During the Civil War (1864/5) Open Letter to President McKinley by Colored People Of Massachusetts I. D. Barnett et al. (1899) Lewis H. Douglass on Black Opposition to McKinley (1899) The War Prayer by Mark Twain (1904) "Comments on the Moro Massacre" by Samuel Clemens (1906) Patriotism: A Menac...

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... During the Civil War (1864/5)Open Letter to President McKinley by Colored People Of Massachusetts I. D.Barnett et al. (1899)Lewis H. Douglass on Blac... ...et of the Vietnam Day Committee(1965)"There Was No Rules At All" — Stories from Vietnamby Haywood T. "The Kid" Kirkland (1984)"To Draft Board 1"by Kur... ... (1984)"To Draft Board 1"by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1967)"They Were Butchering People" by Larry Colburn (2003)"A War I Opposed And Despised" by Bill Clint... ...olburn (2003)"A War I Opposed And Despised" by Bill Clinton (1969)Excerpts from Scanlan's Guerrilla War in the U.S.A. January 1971 IssueTo the Soldier... ...Edelman (1983)June Jordan Speaks Out Against The 1991 Gulf War(1991)Letter from Palestineby Rachel Corrie (2003)"You Who are the Bureaucrats of Empire... ...ewees1, a soldier on the Pennsylvania line. From Voices of A People's History, edited by Zinn and Arnove Whilst we lay at Lebanon, a ci... ...red the murderer to kill Heney also hired false witnesses toswear away the fife of Tom Mooney and, foiled in that, they have kept him in afoul prisonh...

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...ere, and how you work. The fish will determine everything. Departure from the lower-48 is from SeaTac. Human resources are responsible for their... ... is from SeaTac. Human resources are responsible for theirmigration to and from SeaTac. Human resources are flown to the cannery and back again atthe ... ...ed to learn more about them but then I got a bookabout Roy Chapman Andrews from one of the book clubs of the day and read about dinosaursit was intere... ...ese early fossils on the East Coast were found by amateurs and doctors and people thatwere interested in the natural histories but didn’t have a forma... ...nsas is largely unsettled at that time the eastern half has gotmost of the people but there’s a railroad pushing westward from Kansas City to Denver a... ...l Williston who is also on the field crew the field crewbecomes more local people than graduate students but all are collecting and sending fossilsbac... ...n billions of pages finally final filterfilter filter filter filter figure Fife fields field fidgeting Fidelity few few few few Fergus afternoon after... ...ndota Mendota memory SeaTac Tukwila SeattleTukwila SeaTac Kent Federal Way Fife Tacoma Lakewood Joint Base Lewis down down down down downDover Dover d...

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...Shapurji Saklatvala was a Parsi from India who was elected twice to the British parliament in the 1920s. A communist and an internationalist, he campaigned vigorously inside and outside parliament on behalf of working people everywhere and especially for th...

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... Election Addresses of 1922 159Chapter 9 - A New Voice for the People 167Chapter 10 - Speaking Against Imperialis... ...Re-election and the Red Scare 274Chapter 15 - Banned from the USA 296Chapter 16 - A Subversive in Par... ...mporary newspaper clippings have been interspersed through the text,mostly from The Times—although as the voice and epitome of the Britishestablishmen... ...he British Empire, the ‘jewel inthe crown,’ and the Indians were a subject people with virtually no voice intheir own affairs or government. But, on t... ...an, but geographicallyand patriotically Indian; but since I have inherited from my father his belief inthe universality of man and his dislike of anyt... ...family. This may well account for his early sympathies withthe really poor people who abounded in the city of Bombay. Indeed, KaikooMehta, Spitam Cama... ...ty, he used up every ounce of his invincible energy in Rhondda and West Fife, working for my return and that of Harry Pollitt. “I have never ... ...ed joy than Sak’s when he knew that our Party had won a victory in West Fife. At the victory meeting held in Shoreditch Town Hall when I came to...

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...Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature of all time. Millions of people have tried to read and understand it, but very few have succeeded. Actually, Cervantes’ Spanish is… weird and not that Spanish! He uses a lot of pronouns; the syntax is absurd; there are far too many conjunctions (y/an...

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... He asked mewhy I was so pensive. Since I did not want to conceal anything from him, I told himthat I was thinking of the prologue I had to write for ... ...ugh other books that are profane and entertaining are so full of citations fromAristotle, Plato and many other philosophers, which turn the highly pra... ...loquent authors? What should I say about those who referto the Bible? Some people will say that there are new St. Thomases; other people willregard th... ...r and prudent in allyour actions, but I now understand that you are as far from all that as the sky from theearth. How trivial details that are so eas... ...oductory sonnets,epigrams, or eulogies that should be written by important people with a title. Youshould compose them yourself and, then, set any nam... ...vanish into thin air. Thanks to these short sentences written in Latin, people will consider you to beat least a grammarian, which is a sought-afte... ...oors usually let out when theyjoin battle. The trumpets, bugles, drums and fife made a continuous, great noise thatdrove people crazy. The duke, the d... ...onologue for a while. All of a sudden, they heard the sorrowful notes of a fife and thehoarse and sinister roll of a drum. They were all startled by t... ...d. They were beating large drums, which were also black. Beside them was a fifeplayer clad in black, like the others. They were followed by a kind of ...

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...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

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... the Wild Races of the World;FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE ... ...ONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LA... ...Killing of the first priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the NewWorld -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Dis... ... CHAPTER IV.Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenthcentury -- Passage... ...vellers permitted totake the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly --Indestructible cloth ... ...eparations for a voyage -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Griefdisplayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three ... ...e with great skillwhile he smoked a cigar. On nearly all the islands of the Pacific the flute and fife players use their nostrilsinstead of their mout...

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...Still, people laughed, others cried. Some married. As a man with sweet food before him, nobody expected the powers that were to fathom the bitterness of famine! David was getting used to the drama. Nothing was exciting anymore. His...

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....................................................................... 2Note from the Writer .............................................................. ...................................... 255 3 Note from the WriterAs any other typical Creative Non-Fiction piece of literatur... ...dable that a majority of characters depictedherein are Homo-Fictus (Fictus from fiction), and not necessarilyHomo sapiens! It is unavoidable to mentio... ... career that had been quite a success. 12 People had come all the way from Toroso in Uganda to seekhis services, and ... ...ding over stolen land to its aboriginal inhabitants,further aggravated the people’s woes. In the end, they counted theirlosses with ear-splitting sile... ..., etiological narratives and trickster stories how fatehad separated their people and how their brothers and sisters hadended up in Chepkitale when ot... ... slightly light skinned,thick-lipped, with short, black and straight hair, fife feet tall, full-bottomed, and to the standards of Lanuda kingdom, she ... ...bedmate, camewith her friend Wairimu. She was such a beauty…light skinned, fifefeet tall, slender, with a full chest, average bosom, thin lips, a long...

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...Description: If You Have Ever Wondered What It Would Be Like to Crash a Fairground Ride, Upset the Russian Mob, Humiliate Yourself Before Millions of People on National Television, Cause Eleven Thousand Pounds Damage to a Restaurant in Blackpool As a Result of Your Ineptitude With An Industrial Belt Sander, Be a Bodyguard, Make a Movie With An A-List Hollywood Actress, Try...

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... knows that rate is 7.94x10-4(dis/sec-g), thus we determine our conclusion from the even moreobvious rate for Plutonium242 of 1.44x108.Oops. Sorry. Wr... ...ite Van Man: hurtling alongthe M4 at ninety towards my (soon to be evicted from) flat. My battleof wits with the Mayor of London’s army of sour-faced ... ...diculous figure I continued to recall those ratherodd incidents of leaping from a blazing BMW with a pistol in my hand ina desperate, albeit significa... ... on (pardon the pun) by the company, I spentthe first few minutes watching people driving by in their smart newMercedes and BMWs. Each occupant was cl... ...a varietyof cartoons. I had a brain stuffed with images of pig-rabbits and peoplewith huge teeth and at least a dozen types of chicken. It was these t... ... a little further. Itook it too far.In addition to my cartoon pig-rabbits, people with huge teeth and manand pig-rabbit-chicken combinations I began a... ...I’d then head back down south to Bath to get myself a job.Pootling through Fife however: chugging along the coast in a rentedPeugeot the colour of toa...

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...sassination attempts against his sovereign. Roland's magical Savantry - one of the seven Talents - was of great service, letting him understand what people were thinking - including some would-be assassins. Now he's off to try to discover who's behind the attempts. The Queen's estranged Prince Consort certainly seems to be involved, from what Roland and others have di...

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...led us to a nearby receiving parlor. The house gave the same impression of age as the city in general did; the wide, wide floor planks didn't come from any trees like we'd seen from the sleigh, and though oiled and maintained, were worn enough in the middle of the hallway that the floor was perceptibly lower there. The walls weren't wainscoted, but rather paneled flo...

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... of the Prince In the Service of the Heir The weaponry in these novels is from the Renaissance, the clothing from Elizabethan times, and the map deri... ... the Renaissance, the clothing from Elizabethan times, and the map derived from the early Middle Ages. There's no time travel, just a world like yet u... ..., is entirely coincidental. Some of those characters were inspired by real people, but remain fictional.The opinions expresse... ...urple-GrayBlessed Augustan Empire Yellow EarldomDensk (Sea People) Red (others not shown)Venetia Pink ... ...he next two or so years how to discern those thoughts, how to guard my own fromother Savants, and how to hide my reactions when learning something tha... ..., but not all travel. Once the snow did not just fall, but remained, then people here and to the north took the wheels offtheir ox wagons and attache... ... she sang anyway. On and to and thrie and faur Everych on wisching more Fife and sixe and se'en and eighte Always 'ware what seems to greate Nyne... ... together for me. On and to and thrie and faur Everych on wisching more Fife and sixe and se'en and eighte Always 'ware what seems to greate Nyne...

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...travellers were uncommon and countries still retained many of the differences that made travel so interesting. Rigby meets with a wide variety of people, life styles and customs, eventually settling in Paris where the state did not consider his sexuality to be a criminal offence. A moving, light-hearted and entertaining story of hope and love, sex and sexuality, the...

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...r pubs. In movies, heavy petting and kissing and simulated sex titillated the masses. Magazines brimming with sexually explicit photos were liberated from under-the-counter closets to flap proudly in the winds of change alongside their more august counterparts at roadside kiosks. While New Zealanders had to go to the barbers or wait till the male assistant was not busy at...

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... in the upbringing of her only son who hadbegun life looking like a refugee from Belsen. One warm afternoon an odd impulse sent me straight from cold... ...xt lap and lip. In that instant I knew the brothers Grimm had toldit true – people could be turned to stone! Quelling the urge to scarper I assumed a... ...throughyears of filthy war. Experience of foreign lands, exotic customs and people with entirelydifferent expectations of life, made them aware of the... ... and tenderness. My father’s experiences were not unique. After recovering from the wounds andhorrors of being strafed and bombed at Monte Casino, he... ...r that might be. What more could anyson ask? The only criticism I received from him in twelve years under the same roof was beingclipped over the ear... ...ter, and after getting my driver’s licence on myfifteenth birthday, several people lent me their cars if I needed one, knowing I wasprepared to drive ... ...keBlair Logie with its crumbling crofts and strange tombstones, and ancient Fife fishingvillages whose silent, unwelcoming menace fed my nightmares fo...