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		<title>downton abbey. and some smothering dream.</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2012/01/20/downton-abbey-and-old-beggars-under-sacks/</link>
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		<title>regency</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2012/01/09/regency/</link>
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		<title>christmas.  three things.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marble Foot and Pine Christmas Festivities Midnight Mass at Holy Name in Manchester]]></description>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/12/27/christmas-three-things/</link>
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		<title>cast your fate to the wind</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/10/05/cast-your-fate-to-the-wind/</link>
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		<title>she&#8217;s the zeal i wish i had</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/09/12/shes-the-zeal-i-wish-i-had/</link>
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		<title>the brief wondrous</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-brief-wondrous/</link>
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		<title>what i&#8217;m writing.  southern goth.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Archie Bishop weren&#8217;t worth half a man. Not even on a good day. On a bad day there weren&#8217;t no point to him at all. He&#8217;d sit on that stump &#8211; out by the railroad where the boys from the mountain wore the path through the woods &#8211; and just stare at you like you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/28/what-im-writing-southern-goth/</link>
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		<title>sweet dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know stress is getting the better of you when you wake up at 4:00am-screaming. I use to do this routinely. The Euro found it amusing, until he didn&#8217;t. Then he started sleeping in the guest bedroom because &#8220;you&#8217;re going to give me a heart attack and I&#8217;d really rather you not, thanks.&#8221; But that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/19/sweet-dreams/</link>
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		<title>an unexpected gesture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often ask myself what makes a story work, and what makes it hold up as a story, and I have decided that it is probably some action, some gesture of a character that is unlike any other in the story, one which indicates where the real heart of the story lies. This would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/10/an-unexpected-gesture/</link>
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		<title>mo and kev.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in London this summer stop by the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s BP Portrait Award Exhibition and see &#8220;Mo and Kev&#8221; by artist Chris Holt. I&#8217;ve mentioned Chris&#8217;s artistic talents before and you&#8217;ll see from his bio on the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s website that he&#8217;s also a BAFTA nominated director, writer, and producer. So you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/06/17/mo-and-kev/</link>
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