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What You Should Do in Robertson For a Weekend

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In early cinema a lens flared when you hadn’t placed you lighting correctly, and was considered sloppy film-making....
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Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Published in 1979, GEB was said to be the next “On the origin of species”, and I think...

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What the heck is Caperitif? A while ago I visited AA Badenhorst Family Wines (they make a fantastic...

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