"His Habitation was extremely pester'd with Rats, which gnaw'd his Cloaths and Feet when sleeping. To defend him against them, he fed and tamed Numbers of young Kitlings, who lay about his Bed, and preserved him from the Enemy"

-Richard Steele, 'Alexander Selkirk,' The Englishman, 1713 ( Read more... )

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Now that there are no codes I'm making this jnl friends only. For various reasons. & will be going back and retrospectively friends-ing my previously public entries, when I get time.

... have no idea where this is going, but will attempt to be more careful with personal pronouns - at least, I will try to keep my own for myself. "You" on the other hand - now that I cannot see any way of fixing; it shifts all over the place ( Read more... )