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Thanking musicians

Images and abstractions in Denise Levertov's poems

The overcast February sky over the highway from Zurich to Basel

Listening to R.E.M. and remembering their debut "Murmur" when it came out in 1983

Finding an English translation of the German word "Schnittchen" by going through French

"Messrs Achburn, Soulpetre and Ashreborn" and the ingredients of gunpowder in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"