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Monday, August 27, 2012

that clinking clanking sound

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Weird piece in NYT on private schools. Though expensive ($40,000 or so a year), they can't cover their costs by tuition -- donations mu...
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take that!

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The site is simple to use, just sign in with Twitter via Oauth and then your off. Once logged in you can do the following tasks. You can ...
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taking responsibilities seriously

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I'm reading Gordon Leff's Heresy in the Later Middle Ages.  The phenomena described are terrifyingly familiar - the malaise which af...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012

always the last to know

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Reading an interview of Christopher Tolkien which appeared in le Monde last month. French readers, it seems, meet Bilbo and Frodo Baggins...
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either either

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"You've no idea how much email I get telling me how wrong every single thing in the book is. There are a lot of very specific thi...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

A-Y

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Every oral-sex seminar, “every masturbation how-to session, every tip I heard on how to stimulate the anus — each of these seemed to be moc...

over there

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Part of a series begun in World War II for American GIs going abroad, A Pocket Guide to Vietnam was intended to introduce them to the cus...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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