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...Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
...antagonist--i.e., the ever-present social enemy--become the protagonists. The verbal bouts in which you both engage are conducted in two dialects: "pukka", to which you, the sporting aristocrat, are sometimes entitled; and "non-pukka", or common vernacular, to which your "bootless and unhorsed" social opponent is restricted. Fake, for example, an extract from "At the Massage Parlor...
...Jeff had the guy one-to-one and couldn't out-fake him," he laughed. "Campbell's just a poor broken-field runner...
...feints and ruses of special operatives also worked at El Alamein, where Rommel was fooled by planted documents and fake troop movements. Hitler was conned into thinking that Sardinia, not Sicily, would be invaded...
...eighteenth-century people who infallibly appear in his drawings use the ruins as cow fields (the Forum), houses (the Temple of Vesta), or buttresses for their own constructions (the Arch of Titus). The ruin was part of the landscape of the time--in the gardens of the Villa Borghese fake ruins were along with an artificial waterfall and a man-made lake. Piranesi's Characters explore the ruins as they would a natural wonder, they admire them and scurry on top of them as they would a huge tree, or a rock. The small figure looking up at Trajan...