A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an...
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and learned disquisition; there is heart-stopping documentary and heart-lifting revelation. But these stories are not separate. They are all linked by a complex weave of inquiry into history itself, into love, myth and fabulation. It's about everything that matters, told with brilliant imagination, intelligence and humour.
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Chapter 1: The Stowaway: They put the behemoths
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In the beginning, the Ark consisted of eight vessels
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As far as we were concerned
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As the flotilla neared completion
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I would occasionally find the situation funny
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The rest of us, understandably enough, were far more concerned
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In fact, when we came to look back on it after the event
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There were other dangers on the voyage
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I suppose it wasn't altogether Noah's fault
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Which reminds me of that business with Ham's wife
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When the Ark landed on the mountain top
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Getting of the Ark, I think I told you
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Chapter 2: The Visitors: Franklin Hughes had come on board
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The first leg of the trip
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The atmosphere seemed a little torpid to Tricia
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The visitors were late for Franklin Hughes's lecture
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They waited for half an hour in a silence
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When they were all present
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Late that afternoon they heard a plane fly over
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Franklin was put for the night in a stateroom
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Back in the stateroom with the Swedes and the Japanese
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I had been hoping,' he began
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At this moment a large, unathletic American
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Chapter 3: The Wars of Religion (Source: The Archives Municipales de Besancon
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Know, gentlemen, what was already been put before you
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Plaidoyer des insectes - 4:31
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In the fourth place
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Replique des habitans - 4:07
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In the third place
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And in the fourth place
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Replique des insectes - 3:44
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In the third place
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Conclusions du procureur Episcopal - 5:31
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Chapter 4: The Survivor: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two
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People couldn't understand why she got so upset
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I wonder what's happened to Greg. - 6:52
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She left the world behind
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I couldn't tell last night
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She thought she saw another boat on the horizon
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It's laughable. Listen to this dream.
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I'll give you an example. - 6:25
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The one I had the argument with about the gloves
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I knew he'd be back. - 5:56
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It was cunning of him not to contradict me entirely. - 6:23
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Chapter 5: Shipwreck I: It began with a portent. - 5:06
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It had been intended that one of the naval officers
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The third day was calm and fine. - 5:50
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On the tenth day several of the men
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Shipwreck II: How do you turn catastrophe into art? - 4:31
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Notes 1. The Medusa was a shipwreck
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What did he paint then? - 6:26
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Whatever we decide that the old man is thinking
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Truth to life, at the start, to be sure
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And what of that earlier catastrophe, the Flood? - 5:27
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Chapter 6: The Mountain: Tick, tick, tick, tick. - 6:34
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Amanda did not reply
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It was in the autumn of 1839
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They remained a week in the Ottoman capital
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That day they encountered an American priest
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As they approached Arghuri
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That evening in their room
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At the first steep slope of Great Ararat
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They rested that night and continued climbing
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Miss Logan and the Kurd took turns
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Chapter 7: Three Simple Stories I: I was a normal
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Fifty-two years before I met him
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Three Simple Stories II: What was Jonah doing inside the whale
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What is it about Jonah's escapade
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On 25th August 1891, James Bartley
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Three Simple Stories III: At 8pm on Saturday 13th May
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Immigration, like emigration, is a process
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How much are refugees? - 5:11
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As the ship began its return voyage
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Chapter Eight: Upstream!: Postcard c/o the Jungle - 4:07
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Letter 2. Darling - If you look in your photo album
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Letter 3. Hey Good Looking! - 8:07
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Letter 4. Dear Pips
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Letter 5. Darling - This priest outfit
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Letter 6. Pippa love
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Letter 7. Dearest Pippa
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Letter 8. Jesus Pippa. Jesus. - 5:58
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Letter 12: Caracus 21st July
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It was a bloody long wait for the copter
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Letter 13: Christ don't you do that to me
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Parenthesis: Let me tell you something about her. - 5:06
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I love you,' I whisper into that sleeping nape
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I love you.' For a start, we'd better put these words
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Let's start at the beginning. - 6:18
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This is difficult territory. - 5:32
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Is this how we should think of love? - 6:19
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Do you remember that paradox of love
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Love and truth, that's the vital connection
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There's one thing I'll say for history
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Love is anti-mechanical, anti-materialist
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Chapter 9: Project Ararat: It is a fine afternoon - 6:31
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Spike Tiggler had not always been as popular
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Along with his father's car and a resentful Mary-Beth
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At this exact moment a voice said to him
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Appropriate words were pronounced
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The NASA psychiatrist that Betty consulted
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The Moondust Diner was full that April evening
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A few inches in the Fayetteville Observer
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Some of the journalists with book-learning behind them
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They flew to Ankara where they had to rent tuxedos
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They were alone on the mountain
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It was during their third spell on the mountain
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Things were getting less clear to Jimmy now. - 4:27
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A long silence ensued
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Chapter 10: I dreamt that I woke up. - 5:48
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After breakfast, I put the tray down
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As for the drinks counter
I had no idea
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What else did I do that first week? - 6:03
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And so life continued, as the saying goes. - 4:48
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It was about this time that I took to meeting
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I think it was the golf that finally made me turn to Margaret
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None of this meant that I stopped doing what I'd always done
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I slept badly that night. - 5:13
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I wasn't sure I was taking all this in. - 5:20
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For the next few centuries
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