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It's the middle of May 2020 and the UK remains in lockdown against the cruelty of Covid-19. Social media and comment forums seem to be awash with danger denial and political division which is not good for the mind. It's better to do something creative...

So it should come as no surprise to see me returning to cut-up poetry that makes very little sense - it reflects the confusion of these strange times...

Stolen Lines has been compiled from texts found on Project Gutenberg. I sought out The Republic by Plato and Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey deliberately but found the rest of my target texts by playing with Project Gutenberg's random selection tool.

Please do not try to find deep meanings in these lines - there are none to be found and to seek them would be madness. Download the PDF and see for yourself...

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What's Project Gutenberg? Project Gutenberg is an ever-growing online library of texts that are out of copyright and therefore in the public domain. Take a look...

Sounds like a load of old stuff... It is. However, you'll find just about all the classic books ready to read for free. There's also a hell of a lot of stuff you've never heard of but is there to be dipped into at no cost. Give it a try...

You say these poems are meaningless? That's right. I put them together to amuse myself, they should be read for a bit of amusement. Amuse yourself...

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