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Have you spotted the TWO mistakes?
Although it was my day off, I still felt I should draw the salesgirl's attention to the errors. "Clueless" best describes the look she gave me.
That was 10 days ago; the sign is still unashamedly on display.
Birthing - a word I don't remember ever having used until recently, when I was writing a piece entitled "The day". It's also a word that I've hardly ever come across, so much so that I have no memory of when that was.
Until the morning after having published the article. I'm sitting on the throne, engrossed in the latest edition of Total Film while evacuating my bowels (evidence that a man can multi-task too!) I'm reading a feature discussing the utility or otherwise of movie commentaries that accompany DVD and Blu-Ray releases when, there it appears, in all its glory - "...films represent years of careful birthing..."
Am I to make something out of it? Is this pure coincidence or some evidence of predictive capabilities? Could it be a case of heightened awareness because, happy with my use of an under-utilised word, I am more inclined to notice it?
The final board of an informative and fun game of Scrabble, with players hailing from Reunion Island, Russia and Malta. So many weird words.....
This interview (in Maltese), held at St. James Cavalier in Valletta on 14 October 2010, was carried out by Simone Galea.
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The State first moved against Mark Camilleri, the editor of the student newspaper Ir-Realta’, for publishing a piece of fiction - Li Tkisser Sewwi - deemed injurious to an adult readership.
The State has now gone for the author of the story, Alex Vella Gera, because the explicit language used is apparently considered alien to the Maltese public and corrupts our morals.
The State must now prosecute all those who have read this controversial piece of literature, if only to maintain its credibility as the persecutor of free thought and expression.
In this respect, I confess that I, Sandro Bugeja, holder of ID 0272264M, have voluntarily read the complete story. Furthermore, in connection with the charge of “injuring public morals or decency”, I am ready to take an affidavit confirming that as a member of the public, I did not feel injured in any way after having read it.
(This letter was published in The Times of 22 March 2010)