little helper

today's tasks were carried out between mind-cleansing doses of this excellent modesty blaise novel. i've read them at least half a dozen times since picking them up at some point years ago. despite being written in the 1960s-1970s they are, like ian fleming's james bond novels, only dated in some details; the stories are great page-turning adventure thrillers. leave your disbelief at the door, to be sure, but they are tightly plotted and sparely written in a way that dan brown can only dream about (in fact, having read 'the da vinci code', i don't think he has the brains to dream of something this well written!).

yes, that is my sofa. no, i didn't spend the *whole* day on it!

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the answer to yesterday's question was, as i felt certain it would be, no. and despite a query as to why, there has been no mention, no response. *sigh*