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"But then, as they say, who knows?" Habit being what it is, I search around for a more cheerful note on which to end our conversation: office gossip at the Observer, the state of British fiction, Christmas shopping.
On a more cheerful note, everythingsperfect posted this response to our June reading group choice The Master and Margarita And roadwaterlady felt inspired by Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent: "Such eloquent and disciplined writing I am savouring each sentence.
On a more cheerful note, 2011 saw the appearance of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, his fifth film since making his debut in 1973 and his first in six years; Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, his first feature since The House of Mirth in 2000; and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, a marvellous return to form after a decade flirting with disaster.
On a more cheerful note, our Harry Potter sorting hat quiz has sorted hundreds of thousands of readers into the right houses: which one are you in? We've learned how to draw… kittens, pandas, finches, bears, woolly mammoths, sunsets, hares, badgers, penguins, evil penguins, Darth Vader, with pencil shavings, with charcoal… anything.
A more cheerful note of cultural history is struck by Graham Robb's Discovery of France, in which the literary historian and biographer of Balzac, shows how so much of what we consider to be an essential, eternal part of "la douce France" is actually a matter of relatively recent history.
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While this documentary certainly strikes a cheerful note, the more we filmed Beautiful Liverpool, the darker it became and eventually we ended up filming more needles piercing skin than we did in Swansea.
Striking a marginally more cheerful but at heart no less jaundiced note than Mr. Novatny's images, they recreate the ersatz contents of a studio apartment seemingly occupied by an artist.
"The mood in the markets is clearly much more cheerful now than in mid-April," said Ian Shepherdson, economist at High Frequency Economics, in a research note to clients.
French firms are more cheerful.
"People are more cheerful.
There's nothing more cheerful".
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