August 2011
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Aug 2nd
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July 2011
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Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary
“Among the knowledge that he possesses: pi to 11 digits, the names of the current communist countries, at least 28 past U.S. presidents—including the first six and last six, who Larry David, Kofi Annan, Steven Soderbergh, Donovan McNabb, and Warren Buffett are, the significance of the Magna Carta, three mythic allusions, working use of literary devices, what CFC stands for, where Darfur is, the...
Jul 24th
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June 2011
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Jun 26th
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Jun 25th
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Jun 24th
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Jun 16th
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QBits: Thousands take part in Tel Aviv pride... →
qbits: Organizers say Friday parade biggest in city’s history. Gay religious men among the marchers Elad Rubinstein Published: 06.10.11, 14:47 / Israel News Thousands of people took part in the Tel Aviv gay pride parade on Friday, held under heavy security. Several main roads in…
Jun 11th
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Jun 7th
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Jun 5th
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Listenpaper crows, fingertips
Jun 5th
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Jun 1st
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May 2011
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May 31st
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The Durrell family's villas on Corfu →
The Strawberry Pink villa, the Daffodil Yellow villa and the Snow White villa (and Lawrence Durrell’s “White House”).
May 29th
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May 28th
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whatever happened to Margo? →
Gerald Durrell’s sister Margo wrote her own autobiographical account.
May 19th
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May 18th
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Whatever happened to Nancy Durrell →
A new biography of Nancy Myers, the first wife of Lawrence Durrell, is going to be published soon. It’s written by Joanna Hodgkin, Nancy’s daughter with her second husband. Nancy, a painter, lived with Lawrence on Corfu; when war broke out in 1939, the couple escaped to Egypt with Penelope, their baby daughter. They split up not too long afterwards, and Nancy went to Jerusalem.
May 17th
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May 9th
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May 3rd
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Indigenous Dialogues: Delos →
indigenousdialogues: For Diana Gould On charts they fall like lace, Islands consuming in a sea Born dense in its own blue: And like repairing mirrors holding up Small towns and trees and rivers To the still air, the lovely air: From the clear side of springing Time, In clement places where the windmills…
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December 2009
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November 2009
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Nov 3rd
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Johah Shimmel ... The Original Knishery, NYC
justwhatisee: …one of our favorite spots to pick up a Knish or two when we’re in the city. I’m an iPhone photographer. All of my images are created created using Apple’s 2G or 3Gs iPhone. Please view all of my images at www.justwhatisee.com.
Nov 3rd
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“…it was not the sort of time by which others reckoned. It was ruminative,...”
– Anita Brookner, The Rules of Engagement
Nov 1st
October 2009
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Oct 31st
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perfection is attainable
[A poem by me, made from the titles of spam email] Good News. perfection is attainable Do not limited in your desires Kings pay millions to be this You and a Rolex watch. women are attracted to giants the great the one Cartier. replica or original what will lead to your super satisfaction? you do not want to buy unknown them in strange stores? Omega Watches. Tiny dimension is...
Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
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Mrs. Nabokov letter to a Joyce Scholar
printedandbound: Dear Mr. Dalton, In answer to your kind letter of September 21, my husband asks me to say that he thinks ULYSSES by far the greatest English novel of the century but detests FINNEGANS WAKE “whose obscenties when deciphered are not justified by the commonplace myths and silly anecdotes they laboriously mask.” He very much regrets that the amount of work already lined up for the...
Oct 25th
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Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Podcast of Persian Bahai author Bahiyyih Nakhjavani talking about and reading from her new novel, The Woman Who Read Too Much, about Tahirih, Qurratu’l-Ayn, the Persian Bahai poet and scholar of 19th century Qajar Iran who shocked her contemporaries by her religious beliefs and her rejection of the veil. The book was written in English and is published in several languages but not yet the...
Oct 24th
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work →
thirtyfivemm: She was a Jewish refugee from France,Vivian passed away on April 22, 2009. This is an incredible find and wonderful work.
Oct 20th
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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Oct 20th
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