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Dr.Quack’s DUCK review
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— 24 Mar 2009 dr.quack 2 comments

I see a book has been published on DUCK. (Victoria de Rijke, Reaktion Books, 2008). My subject. No-one asked me, but I certainly have an opinion.
Well, my ducks, it could be so much braver, so much more than the sum of its careful, scholarly parts. I[…]

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How Queen Victoria Used To Live
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— 24 Mar 2009 Pete Baran 4 comments

Maybe it was Emily Blunt’s big stamp head on the side of all the buses in London that made me want to see The Young Victoria. Maybe it was the surprising use of the definite article in the title. Whatever I went to see the costume and facial ha[…]

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