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	<title>Buffy Holt &#187; brain snacks</title>
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		<title>discovering einstein&#8217;s god</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/08/26/discovering-einsteins-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Einstein I read something the other day by John Polkinghorne. I wont get into the obvious debate re: physicists-turned-priests or things like the Templeton prize, and I&#8217;m not suggesting, by mentioning Polkinghorne, that he and Einstein held similar philosophies. But I do want to [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/08/26/discovering-einsteins-god/' addthis:title='discovering einstein&#8217;s god' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>einstein&#8217;s god</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/21/einsteins-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/21/einsteins-god/' addthis:title='einstein&#8217;s god' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>on madness.  a writing exercise.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/17/on-madness-a-writing-exercise/</link>
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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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/17/on-madness-a-writing-exercise/' addthis:title='on madness.  a writing exercise.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/08/the-pity-of-war-wilfred-owen/' addthis:title='the pity of war. wilfred owen.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/06/nabokov-reads/' addthis:title='nabokov reads.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/02/parker-library-corpus-christi-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 19:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/05/02/parker-library-corpus-christi-college/' addthis:title='parker library. corpus christi college.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>the thin blue line.  wonders of the solar system.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/18/the-thin-blue-line-wonders-of-the-solar-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/18/the-thin-blue-line-wonders-of-the-solar-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Euro&#8217;s brother is an insanely talented artist. I have a theory that in a past life he painted whatever it was da Vinci painted over in that Milanese noodle hall. So, there&#8217;s that. In this life, he&#8217;s also a director. Watch one of his programs, The Thin Blue Line<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/18/the-thin-blue-line-wonders-of-the-solar-system/' addthis:title='the thin blue line.  wonders of the solar system.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>wolfram&#124;alpha &#8211; artificial intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/17/wolframalpha-artificial-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/17/wolframalpha-artificial-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, in an intimate moment, my sister looked at me and said: &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge me.&#8221; She followed this with: &#8220;I think Donald Trump is Sexy.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t, of course. Judge. How could I? Growing up, Walter Matthau was my Backstreet Boy. I also think Stephen Wolfram is all kinds of hot. If you don&#8217;t already [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/17/wolframalpha-artificial-intelligence/' addthis:title='wolfram&#124;alpha &#8211; artificial intelligence' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/01/the-theory-of-everything/#comments</comments>
		<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 and, you know, smart, 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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/03/01/the-theory-of-everything/' addthis:title='the theory of everything' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>how perfectly lovely. matthew macfadyen reads yeats.  and other things.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2009/11/19/how-perfectly-lovely-matthew-macfadyen-reads-yeats-and-other-things/</link>
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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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2009/11/19/how-perfectly-lovely-matthew-macfadyen-reads-yeats-and-other-things/' addthis:title='how perfectly lovely. matthew macfadyen reads yeats.  and other things.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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