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		<title>Another one for the coincidence club</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/12/02/another-one-for-the-coincidence-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase &#8220;Thrilla in Manila.&#8221; A clue spotted last week in the NY Times crossword. (The answer was &#8220;rematch.&#8221;) Then a friend of mine used the phrase Monday evening. Then on Tuesday I read it in a novel (&#8220;John the Revelator&#8221; by Peter Murphy.)
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		<title>Bleak House II</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/06/28/bleak-house-cont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[300 pages in, Dickens, as Virginia Woolf observed, keeps piling more characters on the fire. It&#8217;s a blazing bonfire by now with several shadowy characters up to something. It&#8217;s not exactly clear what their up to, but it&#8217;s clear that they are revolving, ever closer, to the protracted Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. Mr. Tulkinghorn, Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bleak House</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/06/21/bleak-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting started on another Dickens. This time starting with chapter 3, we&#8217;ve got a female narrator. There&#8217;s a protracted law suit going on, and most of the main characters are beneficiaries of one of the litagants, John Jarndyce. There&#8217;s our narrator, Esther, as well as two distant cousins, Ada and Richard. And then there&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Times by Charles Dickens</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/06/18/hard-times-by-charles-dickens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another excellent book by Dickens filled with great characters and exciting drama.
The tale is set in Coketown, a made-up manufacturing town in the north of England. Dickens uses animal metaphors to great effect, describing machines as melancholy elephants constantly nodding their heads, and the smoke from the factory chimneys as giant snakes.
The characters include Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silas Marner</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2008/12/20/silas-marner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) is a great novel. I should have read it when it was assigned in high school, but like youth, literature is wasted on the young.

In a nutshell, the plot describes Silas, the solitary weaver, and how he came to adopt an orphaned infant, and how that brought him out of his solitude to join in the life of the community...]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for Robert Burns</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2008/02/15/searching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[on the name "Robert Burns" at harpers.org turns up several things one of which is this from the February 1947 issue in an article entitled "Western Half-Acre" by Thomas Hornsby Ferril:]]></description>
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		<title>Potter&#8217;s finished</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2007/07/28/potters-finished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not saying Harry Potter dies &#8211; I&#8217;m not saying either way &#8211; no spoilers here! &#8211; I&#8217;m just saying that we&#8217;ve finished book 7. I read it aloud to my youngest daughter just like all the book before it. (There were several points when it was difficult to speak for getting all choked up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2007/07/24/harpers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harpers.org is a pretty interesting web site, but not much of the actual magazine in available (free), which is too bad because there is a great story by Alice Munro called &#8220;Fiction&#8221; in the August issue.
Also in that issue is this funny little piece:

[Discography]
MEMORY ALMOST FULL

From a February 26 sentencing memorandum by
Judge Gregory R. Todd, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Colette</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2007/05/28/more-colette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 21:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished &#8220;Break of Day&#8221; by French author Colette. I mentioned before that her birthday and mine are both January 28, right? In fact I seem to be specialising in women authors born in late January&#8230; Edith Wharton&#8217;s is January 24. Virginia Woolf&#8217;s is January 25. Anyway&#8230;
Here&#8217;s a quote. The character Helen Clement is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethan Frome</title>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2007/05/27/ethan-frome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 00:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a couple weeks since I finished &#8220;Ethan Frome&#8221; by Edith Wharton, written in 1911. The delay in making my commentÂ is like a speechlessness wroughtÂ by its devasting emotional impact.
In the first part of the book, I kept wondering why the narrator was so concerned about Ethan&#8217;s &#8220;story.&#8221; He seems too nosy about him. TheÂ introductionÂ informs [...]]]></description>
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