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		<title>einstein&#8217;s god</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is, after all, something eternal that lies beyond reach of the hand of fate and of all human delusions.&#8221; &#8211; Einstein There&#8217;s not a whole lot one can do with ancient Aramaic or Koine Greek except be Indiana Jones or get a diploma in theology and religion. I wanted the former. I got the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on madness.  a writing exercise.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 07:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one way or another, the protagonists of Wise Blood, Lolita, On the Road, Franny and Zooey, and The Crying of Lot 49 all have their sanity called into question, and various abnormal mental states (religious enthusiasm, drug hallucinations, and so forth) potentially compromise their rational faculties. Discuss the theme of madness in one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the pity of war. wilfred owen.</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 20:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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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		<title>the theory of everything</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/01/the-theory-of-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were born calm I would have wanted to be a physicist. It would have made for nice balance. But I wasn&#8217;t. I came into the world hyper and full of stress. So I write. It&#8217;s where I find my peace. When I was a kid I loved Einstein, because he was funny and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how perfectly lovely. matthew macfadyen reads yeats.  and other things.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before he became &#8220;The Darcy to End All Darcys&#8221; the ridiculously talented and RADA-trained Matthew Macfadyen contributed to the DVD &#8216;Essential Poems (To Fall In Love By)&#8217;. A naughty little someone has posted his readings to YouTube. I am very glad of it. W.B. Yeats. When You Are Old. Read by Matthew Macfadyen. William Carlos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>o&#8217; britishness.  zadie smith.  martin amis.  et al.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2009/07/21/o-britishness-zadie-smith-martin-amis-et-al/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every literature or creative writing course I&#8217;ve ever taken has addressed this topic: Britishness. What does it mean to be British? Do we do the same thing in The States? I don&#8217;t think so. (I never did.) But I&#8217;ve never taken a literature/writing course on U.S. soil. So, maybe&#8230; Zadie Smith was the first writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mit opencourseware</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2009/07/16/mit-opencourseware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content &#8211; lecture notes, exams, videos, etc. It&#8217;s not a degree-granting or credit-bearing initiative but it is a publication of the course materials. Which works well for someone like me who has no practical use for things like the Essentials of Geophysics but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>brain snacks.  yale open courses.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2009/04/17/brain-snacks-yale-open-courses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free online Yale video lectures for: Milton A study of Milton&#8217;s poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry. The American Novel Since 1945 The reading list includes works by Richard Wright, Flannery O&#8217;Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. [...]]]></description>
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