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Study China boundless thoughts potential, expect miracles
The buck stops either at Drain's End or Over the Rainbow Mystery is the meat and drink of humankind; also, I have seen, a boundless resource of today’s Middle Kingdom. What studiously-indumbrated glyph born in…
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My Subway Series Memories [by Greg Pattenaude]
On Thursday, the Mets and Yankees completed the annual battle for New York; the Subway Series. In baseball's golden years, this meant two New York teams (Yankees, Dodgers or Giants) meeting in the World…
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Ralph Kramden meets Pascale: Vélibs of Death and the karmic pain of life
Vélibs of Death will create new opportunities for souvenir makers. In Marianne’s kitchen, Karine and I, Marianne and Dominique were discussing under what circumstances we would choose to leave the whips, scorns and…
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Hart Crane’s “Episode of Hands”
The unexpected interest made him flush.Suddenly he seemed to forget the pain,–Consented, — and held outOne finger from the others. The gash was bleeding, and a shaft of sunThat glittered in and out among…
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Tales of the Teaching Road: The First Lustrum (1974-1979) [by Alan Ziegler]
In my first few years teaching I conducted creative writing workshops—with students ranging from six to eighty years old—in public schools (including my former elementary and high schools), community libraries, colleges, P.T.A. meetings, and…
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Mind the gap: be is not the apostle of seem or so it seems
William Hazlitt said that “man is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be”. Well, yes. This interesting gap in our fundamental condition…
