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My name is Mary. People in this Milage call me Mary-Mathilda. Or Tilda, for short. To my mother I was Mary-girl. My names I am christen with are Mary Gertrude Mathilda, but I don't use Gertrude, because my maid has the same name. My surname that people 'bout-here uses, is either Paul, or Bellfeels, depending who you speak to...
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I find that I live the past as if it is the present. They mean the same to me.
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Money and love flow past us, like the waves on that beach with that inner tube that drowned at sea; or was lost. And no man came to put the voiceless conch-shell to his lips.
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
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Born:
July 26, 1934
Died:
June 26, 2016
(aged 81)
Bio:
Austin Ardinel Chesterfield "Tom" Clarke, CM OOnt, was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and short story writer who was based in Toronto, Ontario.
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