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		<title>the mangificent ambersons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major Amberson had “made a fortune” in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.]]></description>
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		<title>water for elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I avoided Twilight phenomena because, to be frank, I didn&#8217;t want anything to pollute my image of a shirtless, ageless David Boreanaz. Still, I&#8217;ve always had a thing for British Boys, and Robert Pattinson has a superbly fascinating face. So, on Sunday I stole into a screening of Eclipse. Today I read Water for Elephants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>martin amis.  literature and violence.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/06/28/martin-amis-literature-and-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/06/28/martin-amis-literature-and-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, 1 July 2010, Martin Amis will be discussing literature and violence at The Martin Harris Centre with guests Blake Morrison and John Gray. They&#8217;ll be mulling over&#8230; The psychological and cultural roots of violent acts, and the ways in which writers from Shakespeare to JG Ballard depict and respond to it. Martin Amis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>to dream</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/06/16/to-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was about twelve I decided there was nothing to it but I had to learn Russian. (I often took on grand ideas during my summer holidays.) Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Gorky. If these wonderful writers could be transliterated so beautifully into English, imagine how wonderful they must be in their own language. I still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the anti-inflammation zone.  what i&#8217;m reading.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/26/the-anti-inflammation-zone-what-im-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/26/the-anti-inflammation-zone-what-im-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I received this email. It went like this: The Anti-Inflammation Zone, Barry Sears B, Go to the library and get The Anti-Inflammation Zone. Now. I think this is the most important book I have ever read about health and wellness. I know I say every couple months that I&#8217;m going Full-Weil (and I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the gravedigger&#8217;s daughter.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/19/the-gravediggers-daughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 07:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates I&#8217;ve got a story about me and The Gravedigger&#8217;s Daughter. And a video, somewhere, of me telling it to her&#8230;to Joyce Carol Oates. She probably forgot about it as soon as I told it but it was a wow moment, in the moment. You could see it on her face.]]></description>
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		<title>the falls.  the falls.  the falls.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/18/the-falls-the-falls-the-falls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 07:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something that&#8217;s neither here nor there but comes to mind because it comes to mind. Whenever I think of Joyce Carol Oates I always have this image of her running through Hyde Park. Long and lean and listening. Alone, with her internal self. What conversations they must have. I&#8217;ve just finished reading The Falls. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the pity of war. wilfred owen.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/08/the-pity-of-war-wilfred-owen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 19:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.&#8221; - Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen &#8211; Poetry of The Great War Wilfred Owen (whom I adore&#8230;exceedingly) was a British poet and soldier who signed up for the Artists’ Rifles in 1915. He was known for his shocking, realistic war poetry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nabokov reads.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/06/nabokov-reads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 20:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1952 Nabokov was invited to Harvard by Professor Harry T. Levin and others as a visiting professor. He taught an undergraduate lecture course in the novel and did research on Pushkin in Widener Library. It was during this period that his son Dmitri was an undergraduate at Harvard, and that the Poetry Room recorded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>parker library. corpus christi college.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/02/parker-library-corpus-christi-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 19:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Parker was a figure of the English Reformation and a benefactor to the University of Cambridge. An avid book collector who salvaged medieval manuscripts dispersed at the dissolution of the monasteries, his greatest tangible legacy is his library of manuscripts and early printed books (which span more than a thousand years) entrusted to Corpus [...]]]></description>
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