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Fewer Dead Souls?

August 14, 2020 3:10 pm Published by Zugzwang Comments Off

By Zugzwang In a previous essay, I speculated that somewhere in the bowels of Public Health England (PHE) there was...

July 27, 2020 3:12 pm Published by Zugzwang Comments Off

by Zugzwang The anti-hero of Gogol’s Dead Souls, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, had his reasons for cultivating the nobility of a...