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PENGUIN ACTS OUT – Part The Fourth

by mwgerard Posted on August 13, 2012

Penguin has got himself into trouble this time!

He had a weak point — this Fortunato — although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.

We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.

The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe

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PENGUIN ACTS OUT – Part the Third

by mwgerard Posted on August 3, 2012

One of the the wildest stories related to a Yellow Diamond — a famous gem in the native annals of India. … Partly from its peculiar colour, partly from a superstition which represented it as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adored, and growing and lessening in lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon, it first gained the name by which it continuues to be know in India to this day — the name of THE MOONSTONE. …

And the Moonstone was seized by an officer of rank in the army of Aurungzebe.

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Penguin Acts Out – Introduction

by mwgerard Posted on June 24, 2012

The super cool people at Penguin English Library have been having a little fun with a penguin figurine and some famous scenes in classic literature. This has been christened Penguin Acts Out.

I’ve been inspired to do the same but I’ve only done a couple so far. Watch this space for my contribution to Penguin Acts Out!