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Three of my flatmates are off on holiday right now, so I thought it would be lonely, but actually no, I had a long talk with P. yesterday and went for a walk with him and C. just now, which is rather more social contact with them than I usually have. This is good.

Am trying to write an essay on Shakespeare's Richard II, too, and reading Anthony Burgess' "Nothing Like the Sun" (his fictional Shakespeare biography, or, as the subtitle gleefully declares, "a story about Shakespeare's love life"). So far, Shakespeare has had sex with possibly imaginary noblewomen, country wenches, his perverted wife (with a dildo), male underage twins he was tutoring, a black woman from the East Indies (aka the Dark Lady), and Lord WH or HW and possibly people I forget. There is a lot of sex in this book, and yet none as explicit as Marlowe's in "Dead Man in Deptford" (also by Burgess and better).

Also, I got my Gallifrey CDs, only they're completely useless because my CD/DVD drive is broken. I want to know that Big Finish were thinking when they designed the covers, all of them are either ridiculous or fugly and ridiculous. Except maybe the one for Dissassembled, I like that one. Next time I buy something from Big Finish it'll definitely be a download (or a book, I bought a Benny book off ebay this week. Well, technically it's a Seven book, I think - "Theatre of War").

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Three of my flatmates are off on holiday right now, so I thought it would be lonely, but actually no, I had a long talk with P. yesterday and went for a walk with him and C. just now, which is rather more social contact with them than I usually have. This is good.

Am trying to write an essay on Shakespeare's Richard II, too, and reading Anthony Burgess' "Nothing Like the Sun" (his fictional Shakespeare biography, or, as the subtitle gleefully declares, "a story about Shakespeare's love life"). So far, Shakespeare has had sex with possibly imaginary noblewomen, country wenches, his perverted wife (with a dildo), male underage twins he was tutoring, a black woman from the East Indies (aka the Dark Lady), and Lord WH or HW and possibly people I forget. There is a lot of sex in this book, and yet none as explicit as Marlowe's in "Dead Man in Deptford" (also by Burgess and better).

Also, I got my Gallifrey CDs, only they're completely useless because my CD/DVD drive is broken. I want to know that Big Finish were thinking when they designed the covers, all of them are either ridiculous or fugly and ridiculous. Except maybe the one for Dissassembled, I like that one. Next time I buy something from Big Finish it'll definitely be a download (or a book, I bought a Benny book off ebay this week. Well, technically it's a Seven book, I think - "Theatre of War").