The Professor and the Playboy

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When a frail, elderly, scientist tells you his picture was once in Playboy magazine, well … you might well show disbelief: if he had once inhabited a passable body it must have been long ago, and wasn’t Playboy for pictures of girls? You check him again for any hint of transsexual (more…)

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Property Beyond the Grave

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The French for funerals as all schoolchildren used to know is ‘pompes funebres’; and ‘pomp’ is a concept we have little use for now, at funerals or anywhere else. It is said you can still get a decent glass-windowed hearse, four black horses and a driver in Dublin, and surely they must still exist in (more…)