Bullwhips and Brown Belts: Beach’s Style Guide April 4, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Actualite
Beachcombing recently stumbled on an unconventional online guide to being a good writer. Advice ranged from the sensible ‘be honest’, to the silly ‘drink coffee’, to the frankly bizarre ‘have a huge bowel movement each day’. It was entertaining but left Beach no closer to Evelyn Waugh and Walt Whitman. In fact, it left Beach [...]
Tibetan soldiers in the Second World War May 31, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
Beachcombing has long been intrigued by the following account published in Tribune in October 1944 in Orwell’s As I Please. We know that Greenlanders fought the Germans, that Brazilians attempted to take Monte Cassino… but Tibetans in the Wehrmacht? The mind boggles. Is it genuine or a Second World War urban legend? Orwell is relying on [...]
