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Elsewise and detailing the absolutely elsewhere, when, why and who done it...
I find it recorded in my notebook, thus;

Sunday 19th – curse that wretched corpse, for floating as it was and picked up lightheartedly by me, in an attack of the (lord peter) whimsical, I find it now quite impossible to put down. I note that Simon Brett is now president of the detection club and indeed a place of queer trades it must be if the society’s head cannot even solve GK Chesterton’s dubious prologue.

Well Watson, as to that, if you are familiar with the details of the case then allow me to draw your attention to two distinct clues; the first a set of rules govering the writing of detection fiction, the other being my own patented method for measuring the difficulty involved in solving a mystery.

The game is a foot or a book as the case may be.
For the rest, trivial as this entry may be; it is not, I hope, without points of interest.
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Just finished reading the wonderful 'Wind, Sand and Stars'. What a book!

That Saint-Exupery manages to tell both an internal and external story so powerfully and vividly and yet straight-forwardly is quite staggering.

One question; during the crash chapter (my favourite) i found that the distances measured made no sense, especially if you try and plot them on a map of Libya, just impossible (surely) to walk the miles under those conditions?

Maybe it was the translation, or just the mens' delirium...

I'm going to do some research but does anyone know?

It didn't detract in any way from the book which i strongly recommend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind,_Sand_and_Stars
 
My next book to read is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov... 

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