Like Hank with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, I read the FT* so you don't have to.
- The Best Newcomer award [at the Edinburgh Festival] went to 24-year-old Josie Long for her show Kindness and Exuberance, which lives perfectly up to its title, being a deliberately lo-fi, ramshackle affair of indomitable cheerfulness. Indeed, Long may have changed my life (I'll report back next year) with her observation on the pointlessness of being cynical all the time: it's not, she says, as if somebody's going to come up to you on your death-bed and give you a prize for it, telling you, "Well done - you haven't enjoyed any of it!"
* page 8, today, or search today's on-line edition for terms above, but my browser won't copy the damned url for some reason I can't grok
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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