Daily Archives: August 31, 2008

Barking Mad: Dodie Smith’s Hundred and One Dalmations

One Hundred and One Dalmations (1956) by Dodie Smith is a curious there and back again tale (or should that be tail?) which is somewhat more saccharine than the Disney film (or at least my memories of it). When Cruella … Continue reading

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One small village: Asterix’s village

One thing  that has puzzled me for ages is the opening of the Asterix books. In each on there is  a paragraph about the only Gaulish village being surrounded by four Roman camps. Is this an exaggeration of the Resistance … Continue reading

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