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James Buchan
British
Novelist
Born:
Jun 11
,
1954
Financial
Great
History
Money
Power
World
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
James Buchan
Poem
Poetry
Purpose
Contain
Like
Importance
Does
Any
Information
Translating
Notice
Warning
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
James Buchan
Setting
Settings
Admirable
About
Features
Foreign
Stories
Personnel
Novelists
Wholly
British
We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
James Buchan
Politics
School
Too Much
Long
Too
Drama
Earned
Our
Promised
Impatient
Shakespeare
Crown
Throne
Scheme
Parliamentary
He
Merits
Prince
Read
Knows
Fret
His
Begins
Subordination
Which
Much
View
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.
James Buchan
Best
Past
Difficult
Fathom
Arab
Emerged
Inspiration
Attacks
Observers
New
Most
Known
Islamic
Least
Years
Iranian
Revolutionary
York
New York
In The Past
Who
Washington
Bin
Believed
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.
James Buchan
Hope
Desperate
Suicide
Gaza
Distant
Prestige
East
Security
Districts
More
Small
Gives
Both
Brutal
Most
Still
However
West
Bloody
Than
Current
Middle
Middle East
Regarded
Romantics
Little
Victories
Bin
Bombers
Symbolic
Chance
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
James Buchan
Great
Book
Result
National
UK
Boomers
Immediately
Inquisition
London
Brown
New
Gordon
His
Survey
Commissioned
Modern
So-Called
Which
Register
Realm
Asset
Treasury
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.
James Buchan
Man
Woman
Quality
Speak
Money
Lover
Market
Must
Give
Takes
Name
Reduce
Deny
Commodity
While
Transforming
Customer
Special
Unique
Appetites
Away
Her
Here
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