I said to a friend a while back “I was reading Marcus Aurelius’ meditations, and…” She replied that I was the only person she knew who would come out with that sentence. Let’s take that as a good thing, shall we, and I’ll share with you some of the best bits from the thoughts of the sixteenth Roman Emperor.
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Day 13: Brussels to Sheffield
21 May
What a relief to get out of Brussels! I walked out my smelly hotel, past all the sex shops and the sanitation workers cleaning the streets of the previous night’s litter, and went to Hotel Mozart for the free breakfast I had been promised.
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20 Mar
I was listening to an audiobook of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes yesterday when there was a line so intoxicating that I had to stop in the street, rewind it, and then quickly google it before I forgot it (because it’s hard to mark a page in an audiobook).
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K C Murdarasi 