The Burning Bear is a strange attractor for the weird, baroque and alternately real, and that's just its customers. The tales they tell are best heard with a stiff drink to hand.
I lived through the first Cold War. Iโm a Londoner, contrary, widely traveled, prone to wild exaggeration and prevarication in equal measure. I make a hopeless role model. โ... your views are just utterly incoherentโ Dan Lyndon - critic
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick
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