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Dollar-Cost Averaging
A reader asks for an explanation of dollar-cost averaging. This refers to the strategy of investing funds on an incremental basis rather than all at once. An installment of, say, $300 on the fifteenth…
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Freud Quiz # 10
Freud, an avowed agnostic, said that he remained culturally Jewish. The best evidence for this is (a) the skullcap that he wore when having sexual intercourse with his wife (b) in no photograph…
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Edward Bunker [by Mitch Sisskind]
Tough guy writer is pretty much an "ox-he-moron." Hemingway could take a punch, no doubt about it, like in that African plane crash (1954) when he used his head as a battering ram to…
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Diving Bell & Butterfly [by Mitch Sisskind]
The story of a man, pretty much of a fuck off, with some vague aspirations toward writing. But the gods were kind of curious as to what he might come up with. Since he…
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Hart Crane’s Bridge
Walker Evans, photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge; from theBlack Sun Press edition of Hart Crane’s The Bridge, published in 1930. *** http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/exhibtion-podcast-metaphor-taking-shape/ courtesy Nancy Kuhl Beinecke Library / Yale University
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Bonus Questions
1. Who wrote the Confessions of Rousseau?2. Who wrote the Confessions of Nat Turner?3. Who wrote the Confessions of a Justified Sinner?4. Who wrote the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas?5. Who played Boswell to…
