Readers Digest

LAUGHTER

The best Medicine

Sandy began a job as

a school counsellor

and was eager to help.

One day during recess,

she noticed a girl stan-

ding by herself on one

end of a playing field

while the rest of the

kids enjoyed a game

of soccer at the other. “My doctor says you should be drawing

Sandy approached more fruits and vegetables.”

the girl and asked

if she was all right.

The girl said she was. looking at Sandy suspi- When the spirit doesn’t

But a little while ciously. Feeling she move a thing

later, Sandy noticed was making progress, I’m so lazy, I’m more

the girl in the same Sandy then asked, of an atrophy wife.

spot, still by herself. “Why are you standing — @AngryRaccoon2

Approaching again, here all alone?” I don’t spring into ac-

Sandy offered, “Would “Because,” said the tion. I dead of winter

you like me to be girl with great exaspera- into action.

your friend?” tion, “I’m the goalie!” — @SondraDeeMe

“OK,” said the girl, —Coursehero.com

A plane is heading

When I find myself walking through the to Washington, D.C,
when a politician

valley of the shadow of death, I remind in the economy sec-

myself not to trust Google Maps again. tion gets up and takes
a seat in first class.
—Submitted by William Petticrew The flight attendant

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sees him do this and his ear. The politician Reader’s Digest
asks him to return to says, “Oh, I’m sorry,”
his original seat in and then gets up and amazed and ask the
economy. But the goes back to his origi- pilot what he said
politician says, “I’m nal seat in economy. to make him move.
an elected official,
I’m important, I’m on The flight attendant “Easy,” he says.
my way to D.C., and and the co-pilot are “I told him that first
I’m staying here!” class isn’t going to D.C.”
—Greg Lindsay
The flight attendant
tells the pilot and the YOU KNOW THE FEELING?
co-pilot about this.
The co-pilot then goes Hangry, a portmanteau that describes the irritability
to ask the politician that arises from hunger, succinctly gets at a very
to return to his original
seat. But the politician particular human emotion. Shouldn’t we have more
insists again, “I’m an
elected official, I’m of these terms? Here are some clever nominees.
important, I’m on my
way to D.C., and I’m buralysis: The rembarrassment:
staying here!” paralyzing anxiety you A feeling of humiliation
feel when confronted at the memory of an
The co-pilot returns with bureaucracy. awkward or shameful
to the cockpit and tells experience from long
the pilot that the politi- pretedium: The mix- ago, often unrelated to
cian just won’t listen. ture of frustration, ennui current circumstances.
and anxiety that washes
“I fly the D.C. route over you when you real- creditphoria:
all the time,” the pilot ize you’ve been cornered The pleasure, denial,
says. “I’ll handle this.” by a known long-talker. delusion and mania
of being in a store you
The pilot walks back cine-void: The guilt don’t belong in and
to the politician and that follows browsing buying an item you
whispers something in Netflix and seeing an cannot afford.
‘important’ film that you
know you should watch premoji: The feeling
but choosing John Wick: of searching on your
Chapter 2, a movie you’ll smartphone for an emoji
convince yourself you’ve that doesn’t exist.
never seen.
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Films

ENGLISH: Like all good A still from Raya And The Last Dragon
Disney animation films,
RAYA AND THE LAST access the wonder that With his much-ac-
DRAGON is set in a fan- is his literature. Directed claimed Newton, Amit
tasy world, Kumandra. by Abhishek Chaubey, Masurkar captured bril-
As monsters turn all liv- Srijit Mukherji and liantly the loneliness
ing creatures into stone, Vasan Bala, the antho- of upright government
dragons sacrifice them- logy’s four shorts are officials in India. With
selves to save human- each inspired by the SHERNI, the director
kind. When Kumandra legendary filmmaker’s seems to be hoping to
is again threatened, only literary oeuvre. repeat that award-win-
the princess Raya can ning performance. This
save the world with Sisu, time, a forest depart-
the last dragon. Premier- ment officer, played
ing on Disney+Hotstar by Vidya Balan, seeks
on 4 June, the film to balance animal pre-
promises to take servation and human
the breath away. needs. The film is all set
to release on Amazon
HINDI: The warm, Prime Video this June.
insightful stories of
Satyajit Ray have, for Vidya Balan in Sherni TAMIL: Witty dialogue is
long, been essential as essential to a gangster
reading for Bengalis, film as thrilling action.
but RAY, an anthology
film releasing on Netflix
on 25 June, gives the rest
of the world a chance to

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Premiering on Netflix Reader’s Digest
on 18 June, JAGAME
THANDIRAM has a Dhanush in the Tamil gangster film Jagame Thandiram
bucketful of both.
Dhanush plays the
protagonist, Suruli
Rajan, the ‘original
gangster,’ who is hired
by London-based mafia
boss Peter Sprott (James
Cosmo) to infiltrate a
rival gang. As Suruli
travels from Madurai to
London, he is left with
a choice—good or evil?

#WATCHLIST: leaving you in splits.
0N OUR RADAR It should come as no

surprise then that

Loki Season 1: Of all Marvel has given Loki

the antagonists in the (Tom Hiddleston) his

sprawling Avengers own series. Releasing PosterforDomSeason1

universe, Loki is, per- on Disney+Hotstar on

haps, the only one who 9 June, Loki will see of Victor and Pedro,

proves impossible to the God of Mischief a father and son who

forget. He disrupts the encounter alternate find themselves on

moral status quo while versions of himself. opposite sides of the

law in Rio de Janeiro.

Dom Season 1: Coming Victor is an upstand-

to Amazon Prime Video ing cop, trying to rid

on 4 June is Dom, a his city of cocaine

much-awaited Brazilian and crime, while

thriller–crime series. Pedro starts making

Inspired by true events, his way up from drug

the show tells the story runner to gangster.

Tom Hiddleston in Marvel’s Loki

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Books

The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam,
Hamish Hamilton

Tahmima Anam’s first that Anam is now Scope Out
novel, A Golden Age— releasing her fourth
a book about the novel. The Startup India And the Silk Roads:
Bangladesh Liberation Wife tells the story of The History of a Trading
War but, also, ostensi- Asha Roy. A brilliant
bly, about her par- coder, Asha is well on World (HarperCollins):
ents—was as Jagjeet Lally asks a key
beautiful as it her way to be- question—what hap-
was moving. coming the har- pened to India’s pros-
Its sequel, The binger of an AI perous caravan trade
Good Muslim, revolution, but
was longlisted then love hap- once sail and steam
for the Man pens. She mar- came into vogue?
Asian Literary ries Cyrus. They
Prize. Those create a plat- The House of Scindias:
who have been form that per- A Saga of Power, Politics
in love might find her sonalizes the
2016 novel, The Bones everyday rituals of and Intrigue (Roli
of Grace, devastating. millions. They strike Books): Rasheed
It really is good news gold. Cyrus becomes Kidwai writes about
famous, Asha plaintive. the Scindias, a royal
family that has given
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE ... The Heartbeat us some of our more
enigmatic and canny
of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond
politicians.
with Forests and Nature by Peter
Keeping in Touch
Wohlleben (Penguin Viking): News
about climate change might make you (Context): Written by
feel that we have lost our connect with Anjali Joseph, winner
nature altogether but Peter Wohlleben assures us of the Desmond Elliot
that our relationship with the natural world, forests Prize, this is a novel
in particular, is too old to be so ruthlessly and about Anjali, who is
suddenly broken. The forester argues that nature charming but commit-
speaks a language we do, and that consciousness ment-phobic, and Ved,
sees no difference between flora and fauna. who is smitten but a

tad toxic.

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RD Recommends

Music

TUNE IN

Song: ‘Kali Teri’
Artists: Hari & Sukhmani

Listening to Hari & Sukhmani Sukhmani Malik and Hari Singh Jaaj
perform ‘Kali Teri’, one thinks it
belongs on the Monsoon Wedding as its inspiration aesthetics of
soundtrack. It’s not just that the more than one culture, musicians
video of the song features marigolds, need to be mindful of the rules that
it’s also because the sensibilities of make each of their influences great.
Hari Singh Jaaj and Sukhmani Malik Hari and Sukhmani don’t ruin ‘Kali
seem to mirror that of Mira Nair’s Teri Gut’ by slowing it down. They,
2001 film—it makes Punjabi culture instead, give us a chance to hear the
accessible and also cool. Hari and melodic potential of a tune we only
Sukhmani fuse folk and electronica thought of as peppy. This is an
to create ‘folktronica’—a sound both experiment done right.
urban and earthy. We’ve all heard
‘Kali Teri Gut’, but the Chandigarh
duo imagines it anew.

In order to successfully create a
crossover music, the kind that takes

LISTEN “literary event”. friend. He’s started
Hear actress Marisa the podcast CONAN
AUDIO- Tomei read it and
you see why. O’ BRIEN NEEDS A
BOOK:
PODCAST: After spen- FRIEND to correct that.
Set in a ding 25 years hosting
divided Late Night, Conan
Naples, O’Brien realized that
Elena no celebrity he’d
Ferrante’s latest novel, interviewed was his

THE LYING LIFE OF

ADULTS, was described
by Elle magazine as a

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REVIEW

Everyone’s
Got a Story

to Tell

Heartwarming and A still from Cinema Bandi who is always around
humorous, Cinema Bandi for the shoot, but quiet
pays tribute to unsung people to become ‘film- and summarily over-
makers’—often display- shadowed by what is
storytellers and the ing remarkable creati- going on around him.
magic of movie-making vity as they work and He does get to speak
learn on the job. the film’s hilarious
By Jai Arjun Singh last line, though.
Things get compli-
In a village, an auto- cated for Veera and Fittingly, this tribute
rickshaw driver named Gana as they gather a to small filmmaking is
Veera finds a big video suitable crew (including itself a small, low-bud-
camera that someone a girl who sneaks away get one, with first-time
accidentally left in his for the shoot on college actors (only a little more
vehicle. With the help time because her father polished than the hired-
of his friend Gana, he won’t let her act), but on-the-fly ‘performer’ in
sets about trying to slowly they figure out the story). This requires
make a film himself. the vagaries of shot- one to have a bit of
Who knows, it might be- taking, continuity and patience with Cinema
come a pan-India hit? costume. Everyone is Bandi, its more raw
infected by the project— moments, cliches and
The charming new in one scene Veera and an over-earnestness in
film directed by Praveen his wife even behave a some of the storytelling.
Kandregula, Cinema little ‘filmi’ when they Ultimately, though, its
Bandi (Netflix) perhaps quarrel. And in one of sincerity and gentle hu-
derives inspiration from the wittier touches, the mour carry the day.
the fact that in recent ‘writer’ of the amateur
years, thanks to mobile- movie is an old man
phone technology and
apps like Tik Tok, it has
become possible for

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Culturescape

STUDIO

May 11, Ek Adhuri
Baat ka Mitna
(Erasure of the
Unsaid)

by Arshi Irshad
Ahmadzai

Ink and flower-dye
paste on Manjarpat

fabric, 2020

40 x 23 cm

THE WORD ‘isolation,’ All letter writers written. The ink
much like the word know that editing is a has blotted, and,
‘love,’ means different violent act. The lines like blood, it drips
things to different peo- we draw across our on her fabric canvas.
ple. For Arshi Irshad words can come to The woman drawn by
Ahmadzai, it was clearly seem brutal, often the artist has no face.
an opportunity. She making the reader She can’t see, hear,
used the COVID lock- more curious about smell or taste, but
down to create 128 what was left out. Ahmadzai gives her a
pieces of art. It’s only In Ek Adhuri Baat heart, one that beats
when you dig a little ka Mitna, we see that and blurts words that
deeper and look a little Ahmadzai has crossed need to be erased.
longer, do you perceive out all that she has
the anguish that has — BY SHREEVATSA NEVATIA
informed them. Each of
these artworks is a letter readersdigest.in 155
she wrote to her Kabul-
based husband from
Delhi, a city where she
found herself stranded
when India closed its
borders and bazaars
in March last year.

ME & MY SHELF

A communications consultant
and former photojournalist
with Reuters, Farah Bashir
is the author of Rumours of

Spring, her debut coming-of-age
memoir about growing up amidst

the political turmoil and
violence in Kashmir.

My Brilliant Friend Muslims clashing with the policies of the photo: shahbaz khan
Western world and offers us a peep into
BYELENA FERRANTE clashing identities from the perspective
of different characters. The attempt by a
Europa, `999 sister to fight for her brother’s rights, to
The first of the Neapolitan restore his dignity in death, in a world
novels is a fantastic read increasingly spinning out of control,
about the different shades is heart-stopping.
of female friendship. I re-
read this bildungsroman to conceive an Beloved
ordinary childhood and adolescence that
girls may experience in a no-war zone. BYTONI MORRISON,

The Year Of Magical Thinking RHUK, `499:
It was not the pivotal event
BY JOAN DIDION, RHUS, `945 of a violent act of love that
Didion’s memoir is about the ability to Sethe, as a mother, dem-
process loss after the sudden death of onstrates by killing her
her husband at their dinner table. It rein- own children rather than give them up to
forces the ephemerality of life and is a a slave-catcher—what stayed with me for
testament to the human spirit that carries a very long time was the way characters
on despite enduring an intimate tragedy existed in their present and their history
and preparing for an impending one. all at once, relevant even to this day.

Home Fire BY KAMILA SHAMSIE, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law

Bloomsbury India, `599 BYSUAD AMIRY, Pantheon, `4,581:
In this adaptation ofAntigone by Sopho- A reflection of the larger political reality,
cles, Shamsie creates a portrait of young

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Reader’s Digest

Amiry anchors her book on the 40 days garb of sophistication while destruction
she spent in curfew. She reveals the is carried out in the world. What it reveals
absurdities of living in an occupied land transcends nationalities; he goes beyond
by describing mundane, everyday life, his own worlds and becomes a writer
rendered extraordinary by dint of it whose words are at once applicable to a
being in Ramallah, while trying to stay Palestine, an Iraq, an Africa, a Kashmir.
equanimous during a time of siege.
The Return: Fathers,
Things Fall Apart Sons and the Land
In Between
BYCHINUA ACHEBE, Penguin, `519
Achebe merges the loss of a culture and BYHISHAM MATAR,
the transformation brought on by the be-
ginnings of colonialism in the fictitious Random House Trade
village, Igbo. While he spells out the frac- Paperbacks, `1,309
tures induced in its society, the true act The heart beats and stops
of resistance was in his use of the natives’ at the command of the author while
language interspersed with English, at reading this memoir. No unconscionable
a time when there were apprehensions act of the Libyan regime is enough to di-
about publishing an African writer. To minish the hope that Matar carries in his
enforce an identity threatened by poten- heart to find his disappeared father. It's a
tial erasure demonstrates courage. devastating ledger of love, loss and hope.
The non-linearity of the narrative reveals
Power, Politics and Culture: the events from his younger angry self to
Interviews with Edward Said, the measured older self, and the humane
and dignified writer that he is.
Vintage, `1,310
This collection is a vast canvas of Said’s The Late Bourgeois World
ideas on politics, culture, music, activism
and scholarship, the mixing of the two, BYNADINE GORDIMER, Bloomsbury, `899
nationalism and even Salman Rushdie’s On the surface of this novella, Nadine
underground existence. I often dip in Gordimer paints an intimate portrait
and out of these short lucid lessons. of her failed marriage to an ineffectual
rebel, single parenthood and half-
Known and Strange Things hearted affairs, the crevices of which
she fills with the deep apparatus of
BYTEJU COLE, Fabe and Faber, `499 apartheid. She weaves a mesh of the
This collection of essays establishes political and personal with ease and
Cole’s place as a writer of intellectual cleverness to expose the interiority of it.
depth on non-African subjects. In one of There is a quiet force in this book that
his essays (A Reader’s War), he shows us compelled me to write. Each time, I’d
how façades are maintained under the get stuck while writing, I’d return to it.

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BRAIN GAMES
7 Pages to sharpen Your Mind

Lighten Up 3 2
Difficult Three digital alarm clocks are 0
sitting in a pile. The numbers inside the 1
squares of this grid indicate how many of 1 4
the lines adjacent to that square are lit.
Can you fill in three numbers (with three 2
digits each) so that the numbers on the
two top clocks add up to the number on
the bottom clock? The digits 0 through 9
are shown for your reference.

1 (LIGHTEN UP) DARREN RIGBY; (TIMES SQUARE) FRASER SIMPSON
33

45 Times Square
16 Moderately Difficult Fill in each
98 cell of the grid with a digit from 1
54 through 9. Each number outside the
48 63 42 30 grid is the product of multiplying
the digits in its row or column. The
158 june 2021 number 1 will appear exactly once
in each row and column. Other
numbers can be repeated, and not
every digit from 1 through 9 will be
used. Can you complete the grid?

Symbolism reader’s digest
Moderately difficult Based on these
equations, what’s the missing symbol? Feeling Lucky?
Easy You enter a casino and are
+= presented with a game where you
must draw the ace, king, queen
+= and jack of diamonds, in that exact
order, out of a standard deck of
+= 52 playing cards. What’s your
probability of winning?
+ =?

(SYMBOLISM AND FEELING LUCKY?) SUE DOHRIN; (STR8TS) JEFF WIDDERICH Str8ts 85 4
Difficult Fill in the white cells
with digits from 1 through 9 1
so that no number repeats in
any row or column. Black cells 521 4
divide the rows and columns
into ‘compartments’. Each 14 78
compartment needs to contain
a ‘straight’. A straight is a set of 3
numbers that have no gaps
between them, but they can 6
appear in any order (for example,
2, 3, 5, 4). A clue in a black cell 97
removes that number as an
option in the cell’s row and 35 8 2
column, but it is not part of
any straight. 78 6

For answers, turn to page 160.

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BRAIN GAMES SUDOKU
ANSWERS
BY Jeff Widderich
FROM PAGES 158 & 159
4 37
Shape Up 9 68

3 2 5 94
0 9 57
1
1 4

2

1
33

Times Square 76 3 5
35 1
1335
4122 8 14
2771 49
6313
To Solve This Puzzle SOLUTION
Symbolism
Put a number from 1 to 9 in 618245937
+= each empty square so that: 934716258
725389461
Feeling Lucky? Ê every horizontal row and 189423576
1 in 6,497,400. vertical column contains all 352967814
nine numbers (1-9) without 476851392
Str8ts repeating any of them; 263578149
897134625
89 567 34 Ê each of the outlined 3 x 3 541692783
98 156743 boxes has all nine numbers,
521 4 89 none repeated.

12435 78
67 324 89
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345678 12
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WORD POWER Brain Games

This month, we’re celebrating words 9. philistine adj.
with Hebrew roots. You may know more (‘fih-luh-steen)
than you think: balm, cherub, cider, kosher a allergic.
and Sabbath, for starters. See if you can b uncultured.
c foreign.
schmooze your way through our quiz,
and then say shalom to the next 10. maven n.
 page for answers. (‘may-vuhn)
a expert.
By Sarah Chassé b matchmaker.
c rebel.
1. pharaoh n. 5. hosanna n.
(‘fair-oh) (ho-’zan-uh) 11. messiah n.
a ancient grain. a mountaintop. (muh-’sy-uh)
b small boat. b shout of praise. a follower.
c Egyptian king. c eldest daughter. b savior.
c traitor.
2. jubilee n. 6. babel n.
(‘joo-buh-lee) (‘bab-uhl) 12. jezebel n.
a 50th anniversary. a noisy confusion. (‘jeh-zuh-bel)
b candied fruit. b skyscraper. a hoopskirt.
c lucky charm. c naughty child. b immoral woman.
c ram’s horn.
3. cabal n. 7. matzo n.
(kuh-’bahl) (‘maht-suh) 13. behemoth n.
a secretive group. a flatbread. (bih-’hee-muth)
b prayer shawl. b ceremony. a something huge.
c city-state. c card game. b something old.
c something holy.
4. golem n. 8. scapegoat n.
(‘goh-luhm) (‘scayp-goht) 14. chutzpah n.
a set of rules. a one who swears. (‘hut-spuh)
b artificial human. b herdsman. a cookie.
c poached fish. c one unfairly blamed. b nerve.
c blessing.

15. manna n. (‘man-uh)
a godsend.
b great-aunt.
c winged beetle.

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A Not-So-Mighty Hunter

It wasn’t always rude to call someone a ‘nimrod’. In the Hebrew Bible
(aka the Old Testament), Nimrod was the name of an exceptional hunter,
and ‘nimrod’ would later refer to any hunter. So how did his name be-
come an insult? One popular theory: Cartoon character Bugs Bunny
often sarcastically called the bumbling Elmer Fudd ‘Nimrod’ in 1940s
cartoons, teaching generations of Looney Tunes fans that it meant idiot.

Word Power 6. babel (a) noisy 11. messiah (b) saviour. moviestore/shutterstock
confusion. “I can’t The self-help guru has
ANSWERS hear myself think been hailed as a messiah
over all this babel!” by his followers.
1. pharaoh (c) Egyp- Nusrat shouted.
tian king. The pharaoh 12. jezebel (b) immoral
commanded that a gi- 7. matzo (a) flatbread. woman. “In my day, you’d
ant pyramid be built The only matzo I eat is be labeled a jezebel for
in his honour. the kind that’s been showing your knees!”
covered in chocolate. Aunt Rita said with a laugh.
2. jubilee (a)
50th anniversary. 8. scapegoat (c) 13. behemoth (a)
Our town celebrated one unfairly blamed. something huge. The
its jubilee with a parade Though the whole merger would create a
down Main Street. team played badly, tech behemoth that could
the starting pitcher crush all competition.
3. cabal (a) secretive became the scape-
group. The mayor and goat for the loss. 14. chutzpah (b) nerve.
her cabal of insiders “I can’t believe he had
have ruled this city 9. philistine (b) the chutzpah to say that
for decades. uncultured. Call my to me!” Tanmay fumed.
taste philistine if you
4. golem (b) artificial like; I still think that 15. manna (a) godsend.
human. In Frankenstein, The Three Stooges This cancer breakthrough
a young scientist was hilarious. might be the manna that
brings a hideous so many patients have
golem to life. 10. maven (a) expert. been waiting for.
Jaden is the financial
5. hosanna (b) shout maven of our group, Vocabulary Ratings
of praise. The new advising everyone on
production of Wicked saving for retirement. 9 & below: good
opened to hosannas 10–12: gold
from theatre critics. 13–15: god

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Brain Games

QUIZ 11. What kind of dancers
traditionally perform at
BY Beth Shillibeer an English May Day cele-
bration, accompanied by
bells, sticks and sometimes
a white handkerchief?

1. Actor Morgan Free- 6. Which northeastern 12. What German vehicle
man turned his 50-hect- European capital city once favoured by hippies
are property into a sanc- offers its residents will be available in an elec-
tuary for what species free public transit? tric form in 2023?
recently labelled ‘the
most important living 7. Adherents of what 13. Which Irish writer said,
beings on earth’? religion have practiced “We are all in the gutter,
langar—feeding those but some of us are looking
2. After she successfully in need—throughout at the stars”?
climbed the Matterhorn the pandemic?
in 1895, the press 14. What milestone did
debated whether Annie 8. Heron of Alexandria Chris Nikic achieve when
Smith Peck should be invented the first vend- he crossed the Ironman fin-
arrested for what reason? ing machine in the first ish line in November 2020?
century AD. What did
3. Where in our solar it dispense?
system might it rain
diamonds? 9. The Bios Urn, created
by Spaniard Gerard
4. What writing imple- Moline, transforms the
ment can be made out remains of loved ones
of eggshells? into what?

SHUTTERSTOCK/HAPPY MONKEY 5. The Central Public 10. Which disease, 15. Which European
Library in Vancouver is affecting roughly 422 general was attacked by
modelled after what type million people globally, rabbits, forcing him to
of building, famously did University of Alberta retreat from a hunt?
found in Rome? researchers recently
cure in mice?

Answers: 1. Bees. 2. She wore pants while climbing. 3. In the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn,
Neptune, Uranus). 4. Chalk. 5. A coliseum. 6. Tallinn, Estonia. 7. Sikhism. 8. Holy water. 9. A tree.
10. Diabetes (types 1 and 2). 11. Morris dancers. 12. VW Bus. 13. Oscar Wilde. 14. First person
with Down’s syndrome to complete the Ironman triathlon. 15. Napoleon Bonaparte.

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What modest dreamers we have become.

Zadie Smith, author

Home is not where you were born; home is where
all your attempts to escape cease.

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The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the
solutions that people find themselves.

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