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		<title>big celie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celie lived with her six children in a tumbled down company house beside the railroad. Coal dust covered everything within a mile of the track but no dust ever covered Celie. She dressed her family like she dressed herself &#8211; in white &#8211; and was known for starching and ironing every piece of linen she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the bulrushers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wordle After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn&#8217;t care no more about him, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jack kerouac’s beliefs and techniques for prose and life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis (c) The Allen Ginsberg LLC. According to BrainPickings (my latest obsession) Jack Kerouac&#8217;s 30 point list &#8220;Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life&#8221; was allegedly tacked on the wall of Allen Ginsberg’s hotel room in North Beach a year before his iconic poem “Howl” was written. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>and the planet mars took me home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, ‘Take me home!’ And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I’ve written every day in the last 75 years. I’ve never stopped writing. &#8211; Ray Bradbury I&#8217;ve been reading a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>downton abbey. and some smothering dream.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a post about Downton Abbey. But it is a post about Wilfred Owen, and he seems to be popping up a lot lately because of Downton. Media Bistro recently published a &#8220;Downton Abbey Reading List&#8221; and The New York Times even did a piece about Downton and how publishers were using America&#8217;s interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>regency</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2012/01/09/regency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Expectations BBC One I spent the last few weeks eating pies and watching costume dramas and reading Claire Tomalin&#8217;s Dickens Biography. I gained five pounds, discovered the wonderfully squared jawline of a young Douglas Booth, and began to suspect that my favorite Victorian novelist was a wee bit fond of hallucinogenics (see: henbane). I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>christmas.  three things.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/12/27/christmas-three-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marble Foot and Pine Christmas Festivities Midnight Mass at Holy Name in Manchester]]></description>
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		<title>cast your fate to the wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to the Charlie Brown Christmas Album and various Vince Guaraldi holiday hits since mid-September. They&#8217;re all mildly sedative and put the calm in me. I spent most of last week in the hospital. I didn&#8217;t get there on my own merit &#8211; a certain someone decided to have a stroke, and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>she&#8217;s the zeal i wish i had</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/09/12/shes-the-zeal-i-wish-i-had/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started running again last week. Because everything hurts when I don&#8217;t and because it&#8217;s preferable to yoga. Because even though I&#8217;m a bit of a sloth, when it comes to exercise, I&#8217;d rather move than not. Also, you can&#8217;t eagle pose to Eye of the Tiger. That&#8217;s just a fact. Steph drove over this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the brief wondrous</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-brief-wondrous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[junot diaz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Junot Diaz made me cry. Twice. Not his writing . Because, I&#8217;ve gotta be honest. I haven&#8217;t read any of it yet. (Not yet.) But his voice. I have absolutely zero in common with the man. Our backgrounds are not at all similar. Our lives, current, even less so. But hearing him speak really lit [...]]]></description>
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