title: Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8): A Memoir of Love, Exile, and Crosswords
author:  Sandy Balfour 
description: Obsessed with the "narrative quality" and linguistic challenge of cryptic crosswords, London-based TV journalist Balfour sees them as an eloquent metaphor for life: "Crosswords tell stories about ourselves. Crosswords express our humanity.... And British crosswords do it better than any others." In 1983, aged 21, Balfour left his native South Africa, seeking "a bigger world out there, a world where ideas have greater currency, and where words mean more." Journeying in Europe, Africa and America, he became increasingly fascinated with cryptic crosswords, which he links to his travel tales: "We take a bus to the outskirts of Zagreb. Years later I see a clue for Zagreb in the Independent." Headed to Moscow, he took "three pieces of identity"-his South African ID document, his passport and an anthology of Guardian crosswords. He spoke with many crossword "setters," and some may wish for lengthier profiles of these erudite editors plus more anecdotes such as the one about a man who proposed marriage via clues hidden in a 1998 New York Times puzzle. The reader is introduced to the working methods of the Guardian's clever, prolific setter who uses the name Araucaria and has produced more than 57,000 puzzles. In Balfour's polished prose, "every word is pregnant with possibility." Doubly lit with wit, this memoir of layered meanings is written with the realization that "the invisible web of words that binds all knowledge is something real and tangible."<br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Jessie Rose Case
   
   
  Blaz
   
  Galactic Heat Cyborg Series
  Book 5
   
   
  
  Description.
   
  NOTE TO READERS:  If you love the work of Anna Hackett & Eve Langlais you will love
  this.  This is a sci fi romance filled with hot sex, strong dominant men & sexy females who know how
  to hold their own.  It’s gritty, confrontational & stream wwill be coming out of your ears.  If you’re
  looking for something to get those juices flowing, you just found it.  Enjoy!
   
  This novel is written mainly in British English, with Americanism’s & slang of both.
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  Blaz looked at the female chained to the Bridge console.  He was unable to take his eyes off
  her.  Even in her dirty, ragged clothing and physically abused, she called to him.  She had clearly been
  beaten, starved and worse.  The men on this ship had used her and yet her first thought after killing the
  so called ‘Captain’ of this ship?  Find her men.  His female had honour.  His female?   Did he have
  the right to call a female his?  Did he want one?  Log