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‘The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.’ The 17th-century English poet and polemicist John Milton arrived in NZ under rather inauspicious circumstances. The Endeavour’s botanist, Joseph Banks, used pages from Paradise Lost to press plant specimens collected during Cook’s first voyage. Another edition of the […]
… don’t stick your elbow out the window, or it’ll turn into a fossil. If they ever come up with a swashbuckling school, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something. At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would […]
‘The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.’ The 17th-century English poet and polemicist John Milton arrived in NZ under rather inauspicious circumstances. The Endeavour’s...
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