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		<title>Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The words you hear, change what you think. What you think, changes what you do.]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Karenina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is an odd experience to enjoy a book while finding its plot boring and its characters  irritating.  The story and characters were incidental, just vehicles for Tolstoy to show off his ability to break the world into its subtlest moments. He drops the tiniest of details without it ever feeling tedious, and he does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infinite Repeat?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rain Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruminations on Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[currently reading: Desert Solitaire A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey I have always thought of places as existing in a category separate from people. People are portable, self-contained. Places are not portable, and they are connected physically to every other place in existence; no place is truly self-contained. Four chapters into Desert Solitaire, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2/13/06 I&#8217;m going to see The Vagina Monologues on Friday. I&#8217;ve seen it once before in ASL, so this will be the first time I see it in English. In ASL, I thought it was powerful, and fascinating, and important. I was not offended, not even when one performer emphatically signed &#8220;CUNT! C-U-N-T! CUNT!!!&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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