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		<title>viewing a country from near and far</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ccurious how countries are divided into &#8216;must sees&#8217; &#8211; Ayres Rock, Bondi Beach &#8211; and the rest; a much too stark division.
&#8220;One of the places I had wanted to see most of all was Timbuktu, 250 miles from Gao. From Paris the distance had seemed trifling; even if there were no boats [they had arrived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=330&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Algren&#8217;s lament</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SdB Force of Circumstance p 166-7
&#8220;When speaking at rallies for [US Presidential candidate George Wallace] he had fallen in love with a young woman, he wrote; she was being divorced and he thought of marrying her; she was in analysis and didn&#8217;t want to get involved in a relationship of that sort until the analysis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=327&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>force of circumstance to second sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking for Simone de Beauvoir&#8217;s Force of Circumstance for some time and found it I don&#8217;t remember where &#8211; on King St I think not so long ago. I&#8217;ve beeen reading it with an amazing but not unexpected pleasure, it is perhaps even better than the first two. Today she is in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=323&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>grotesque</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With two matter-of-fact murders of prostitutes  and a mother&#8217;s suicide Natsuo Kirino&#8217;s Grotesque is sold as a crime novel, at least in English, but she&#8217;s much more interested in crimes committed by families, and the Japanese education and class systems, as the more visceral attacks on human bodies.
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		<title>the prime of life &#8211; the first 100 pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its not hard, after the first 100 pages of the Prime of Life, to see reasons  why Simone de Beauvoir&#8217;s  autobiographical writing might be so well regarded. We witness the personal and intellectual development of a woman with a finely tuned self-awareness, a development marked by an inclination both to question and to oppose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=259&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>science, civilisation, economics and democracy in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something we don&#8217;t know know, here, is that in the first part of the last (20th) century people in the West were generally ignorant of the scores of technological advances made by China before about 1500. Now the  idea that &#8216; It&#8217;s well known that the Chinese invented masses of things before they were known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=205&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>are quotations the beginning or end of ideas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide
Bernard: Laura, Laura you don&#8217;t love Douviers. You feel affection for him, pity, esteem, but that&#8217;s not love. I think the secret of your sadness (for you are sad, Laura) is that life has divided you; love has only consented to take you, incomplete; you distribute among several what yo would have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=200&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in or out of Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Australia we have been trying to cut our last tie with Europe &#8211; our formal adherence to the English monarchy &#8211; for 15 years or so. In 1998 we temporarily lost our nerve, ostensibly over a squabble about what kind of republic to become. For a much longer time intellectual traditions on the periphery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=191&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>narrowing choices (from 2004)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Johnson Hungry Ghosts Picador 1997
He was of the generation that had indulged in a long, extended youth and which would have trouble coming to terms with the finite nature of life and its unfortunate habit of ageing the body and narrowing choices.
For Anne-Louise life was still a stream in which she was swimming upwards, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=187&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>seriously fragmented</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ll maybe know, I&#8217;m a big fan of Orhan Pamuk&#8217;s Snow; a magically serious book on the surface about late 20th century Turkey;  collusions as much as tensions between liberals and socialists and fundamentalists and lust and business and pride and history and isolation and fairy stories. It evokes many moods, two of them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clovelly4208.wordpress.com&blog=1014012&post=176&subd=clovelly4208&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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