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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory Odours, when sweet violets sickenLive within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,Are heaped for the beloved's bed;And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

This classic bistro offers a masterclass in French cooking and thats a totally unbiased opinion Bouchon Racine, 66 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6BP (020 7253 3368). Starters 8.50-16.50, mains 17.50-48, desserts 6.50-9, wines from 25.50

16 September 1919 The larvae can live in dead wood for over 20 years, before coming out of their burrows as beetles The curious beetle with the very long antenna, four times the length of its body, which was found in a garden at Walkden, is one of the long-horned or longicorn beetles, Acanthocinus ardilis.

Guitarist Robbie Robertson helped to change music history with Bob Dylans backing group the Band. He remembers how the brotherhood ended in heroin addiction and self-destruction In 1965 Robbie Robertson was living in the room next to Bob Dylans at New Yorks Chelsea hotel. This was when Dylan was writing Blonde on Blonde. The television

The hero of Daniel Kehlmanns new novel is based on a character from German folklore, a subversive prankster who challenges the social order with filthy slapstick and fart jokes, like an X-rated Robin Hood. Tyll Ulenspiegel first crops up in a German jokebook the gratifyingly evocative German word is Schwankbuch from the early