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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>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>any number of old ladies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The artist&#8217;s only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one&#8230;If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.&#8221; &#8211; William Faulkner]]></description>
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		<title>water for elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>martin amis.  literature and violence.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>to dream</title>
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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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