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Alarms and Diversions

Foreword

1 The ladies of Orlon; The first time I saw Paris; The psychosemanticist will see you now, Mr Thurber; It's your Mother; Two o'clock at the Metrople; Get thee to a monastery; A holiday ramble; "There's something out there!"; The moribundant life or Grow old along with whom?; Merry Christmas

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2 A gallery of drawings

3 File & forget; A sort of genius; The waters of the moon; Exhibit X

4 A new natural history

5 A final note on Chanda Bell; There's a time for flags; Am not I your Rosalind?; The French far West

6 The masculine approach

7 A friend to Alexander; The figgerin' of Aunt Wilma; Mr Punch; The white rabbit caper; My own ten rules for a happy marriage

8 The race of life

9 The interview; Daguerreotype of a lady; A call on Mrs Forrester; There's no place like home; The lady on the bookcase

10 A miscellany

11 Do you want to make something out of it?; The whip-poor-will; The ordeal of Mr Matthews; Lavender with a difference

12 The last flower

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 367 pages

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