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| 2001 | Nov 1 | The Devil and Sonny Liston Kendall Clark wants me to read this book. He says it's the sort of book Norman Mailer would write, if he could write.» |
| 2002 | May 15 | The Rotter's Club Suggested by a friend; has a group of kids who form an art-rock band called “Gandalf's Pikestaff.”» |
| Aug 30 | Augustus Carp, Esq: by Himself I've just begun to read this amusing novel about an annoying man.» |
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| Oct 2 | Children's Books Online Rapidly expanding collection of scanned children's books, from the turn of last century.» |
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| Oct 9 | ARGUMENTS WITH THE THOUGHT POLICE Neat collection of essays by John Bart Gerald, drawings by Julie Maas - Nonviolence, Schweitzer, Neruda, and the U.N. Declaration on Genocide, well-written and packaged simply for the web (available in a nice print edition, if you have a spare US$35.00).» |
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| 2003 | Jan 23 | ESP: Electronic Scholarly Publishing Great online pub site, plenty of books on genetics and other sciences, as well as the essays of Francis Bacon entire.» |
| Jan 29 | Have You Read This Movie? Neat list of books upon which recent films are based, with summaries.» |
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| Beginnings and Endings A collection of the opening and closing sentences of a few famous works.» |
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| Mar 4 | The case against Conrad Chinua Achebe on Heart of Darkness: "Yes, you will notice that the European traders have 'tainted' souls, Marlow has a 'pure' soul, but I am to accept that mine is 'rudimentary'?" He shakes his head. "Towards the end of the 19th century, there was a very short-lived period of ambivalence about the certainty of this colonising mission, and Heart of Darkness falls into this period. But you cannot compromise my humanity in order that you explore your own ambiguity. I cannot accept that. My humanity is not to be debated, nor is it to be used simply to illustrate European problems." » |
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| Apr 11 | You can only read this if you're in Australia! Texts with expired Australian copyrights, but illegal to read, in this public domain form in the U.S. Leacock, Keynes, Woolf. And lots of Orwell.» |
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| 2004 | Jan 27 | In The Margins of The Past Marginalia in the manuscripts of the Vatican library, some by Petrarch.» |
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