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Alex Prager Photography / The Big Valley, 2008 / Eve

Friday, July 18, 2008

OTP
(Via The ever enlightening publishers of the Field Book series.)

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An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Lives and Letters: The Lion and the Mouse: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Thursday, July 17, 2008

“Stuart Little isn’t Gregor Samsa. He’s Don Quixote, turning into Holden Caulfield.”

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ARTHUR F. KINNEY, Shakespeare’s Falstaff as Parody

Saturday, July 12, 2008

“Martlemas, the feast of St. Martin , celebrated on November 11″

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Varieties of Unreligious Experience

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

“Paris hardly allows you to find out for yourself. Everywhere is known, or not worth knowing.”

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Has modern life killed the semicolon? - By Paul Collins - Slate Magazine

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

“Fiorello LaGuardia’s favorite put-down for egghead bureaucrats who got in his way was ’semicolon boy.’ “

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JUST MARRY HIM?

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

And suitable husbands rarely appear on the scene the very moment their presence is desired.”
(Via More Intelligent Life -.)

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Coudal Partners

Friday, June 27, 2008

First a note about substituting ingredients or tools. Don’t. This method has been exhaustively tested and retested for excellence and the smallest variation can result in catastrophic and unintended consequences. See the ‘butterfly flaps its wings and causes hurricane’ metaphor from Chaos Theory. There is room for personal preference and improvisation in many things. This [...]

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Tristero

Saturday, June 21, 2008
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YES, WE ARE A BIT BORING

Monday, June 16, 2008

“Fran Lebowitz once wrote, ‘The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.’”
(Via More Intelligent Life -.)

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