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		<title>a luminous halo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. &#8211; Virginia Woolf I&#8217;m reading The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf and enjoying it a good bit but I&#8217;ll leave the expounding to clever types like Flynn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>s&amp;i</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drove eight hours and listened to Footloose and blew bubbles. We climbed a mountain. Twice. Traveled through fog. Sucked strawberry and banana through a straw. We played with rubber foots &#8211; FOOTS &#8211; fingers and snakes. We ate these apple things that looked like cakes.]]></description>
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		<title>acting and writing et al.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I trained as an actor in New York, and one discipline I studied was the Stanislavski technique, the basis of which is to live truthfully in the imaginary circumstances. That is what I try to do when I write. I set up an imaginary world, and try to let the characters live truthfully in that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a summer&#8217;s night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucky, this point in time and space Is chosen as my working place Where the sexy airs of summer, The bathing hours and the bare arms, The pleasant drives through a land of farms, Are good to a newcomer. &#8211;Auden]]></description>
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		<title>prospects and recollections.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flynn and I are going on a mini-break next month. The last time we were together we were both living in the North of England. I was working for the Crown Prosecution Service and she was studying literary criticism and pulling pints in the Northern Quarter. I have some vague recollection of looking at bones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the art of fiction &#8211; no.85</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/06/15/the-art-of-fiction-no-85/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[paris review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No one does interviews quite like The Paris Review. In a 1984 interview, Thomas Frick asked English novelist and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction, JG Ballard, how a book took shape for him. Ballard&#8217;s reply follows: &#8220;That’s a vast topic and, to be honest, one I barely understand. Even in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>pause</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<title>forgiving dr. mengele</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The documentary Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2005) follows Eva Mozes Kor, a Holocaust survivor, and her decision to forgive the Nazis who killed her family, in particular Dr. Josef Mengele who experimented on 1,400 pairs of twins including Eva and her twin sister, Miriam. In 1944 Eva&#8217;s family were taken to Auschwitz where she and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i&#8217;m with england</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/06/11/im-with-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[world cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I feel like Virginia during the Civil War,&#8221; I tell The Euro. It&#8217;s the World Cup and we&#8217;re watching the Opening Ceremonies in Johannesburg, South Africa. &#8220;You better not be cheering for the US,&#8221; he says. He&#8217;s only serious about sport once every four years. NOW is every for years. The United States isn&#8217;t use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i dont know how i ever fly</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/06/07/i-dont-know-how-i-ever-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brighton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing rooms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have the loveliest back garden. With climbing ivy and purple flowers and white hydrangeas and a massive rose bush covered in little yellow sprays. Two tomato trees I&#8217;m determined to grow. My mother grew hundreds. Quite literally, hundreds. I can grow two. Probably not. I thought, for a moment, back in May, I&#8217;d like [...]]]></description>
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