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The House on Haunted Hill
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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With Vincent Price, eminently watchable, with a few plot holes, from the days when Hollywood would pay writers. Not bad, but there's a lot of better movies I should be watching...
The Premonition of Love
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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In Japanese it's pronounced "Koi No Yokan". One of those phrases for which there's no English equivalent, although I think "The Premonition of Love" works quite nicely. That feeling when you see someone for the first time and you somehow just intuitively KNOW, a little more pragmatic than "Love at first sight", it implies that you need to know them first, but when you do...
Read more at the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180103-the-untranslatable-japanese-phrase-that-predicts-love
Precognition
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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And this is an odd thing, that seldom am I interrupted from my naps but always I seem to awaken a minute before a text or phone call would otherwise disturb me. A pattern. The meditation is working...
How to Recognize and Destroy Real Vampires
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Books
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More than halfway through this one and it's great, everything I expected. Well, not EVERYTHING, Montague seems to have left off with the Latin and everything seems to be in English - which might be how he wrote it, or it might be an edited version by the publisher. That said, while I love the author, this edition sucks. It seems to be - well, I've never seen such a cheap edition of a book - pages end on the next hanging chapter heading, other slight flaws in spacing and layout which are a bit off-putting, like a home-published book. I'll upgrade when I find an older edition, for the meantime this is great Cafe Reading...
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