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• Tsitsi Dangarembga’s next work won’t be read by anyone until 2114

  25-08-2021 20:00
  
  The Zimbabwean writer joins authors including Margaret Atwood and Ocean Vuong who have agreed to lock away new writing in the Future LibraryTsitsi Dangarembga made the Booker shortlist for her most recent novel, This Mournable Body, the story of a girl trying to make a life in post-colonial Zimbabwe which was praised as “magnificent” and “sublime”. Her next work, however, is likely to receive fewer accolades: it will not be revealed to the world until 2114.The Zimbabwean
  
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• Ascot scene in Pygmalion? Not bloody likely! | Brief letters

  25-08-2021 18:51
  
  My Fair Lady | Village incomers | Jeffrey Steele | Greenham Common | Ian BothamBernard Shaw did not revel in Eliza’s excitement at the races (Editorial, 23 August), as there is no such scene in Pygmalion. The Ascot scene – with Eliza’s line “Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin’ arse!” – was created for the musical adaptation My Fair Lady. In Pygmalion she comes to grief by saying “not bloody likely” at a tea party.Les MastersBleadon, Somerset&b
  
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• Dame Elizabeth Blackadder obituary

  25-08-2021 18:20
  
  Celebrated artist admired for her paintings of flowers and the first woman to be elected to both the Royal and Royal Scottish academiesIn 1994, the year that Damien Hirst made his first vitrined sheep, Away from the Flock, pickled in formaldehyde, the artist Elizabeth Blackadder, who has died aged 89, finished a work called Still Life With Cats. The cats were painted in oil on canvas, joining many others in Blackadder’s oeuvre, alongside arum lilies, Japanese fans and tins of sweets.Mere d
  
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• Almost 5000 COVID Infections Linked To Cornwall Festival

  25-08-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Health officials said 4,700 people who have tested positive for coronavirus confirmed they had attended the festival in Newquay or had connections to it. About three-quarters of them are aged 16-21 and about 800 live in the county. – Irish Times
  
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