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...migrating birds like euphemistic words or an air-blown lover’s kiss – false and paltry – give this part of town a miss) still, I’m a big fish in a tiny pond, twin to a natural blonde but at least a reference for men’s desire, the heat of the missing fire. While our strong and handsome brothers wrestle with each other on top of Ulysses’ mast (male ego, vanity...

...migrated there, Manchester had become the commercial centre of the cotton industry in northern England, while Glasgow performed a similar function for the Scottish Lowlands. The Lowlands, like upland Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, had copious supplies of waterpower which could be harnessed as the prime mover of early industrialisation, notably on the river...