Nov 11, 2001
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A small collection of poems about Boulder, CO.
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A collection of poems by Frank B. Ford
Jan 24, 2000
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A Story of Wall Street. Illustrated with contemporary photographs by Paul Ford.
Nov 26, 2000
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A section from The Mayor of Casterbridge that summarizes Hardy’s historical vision - a mix of architectural, archeological, and human history, which humans ignore to their ignorant doom or observe to their eternal sadness. The beginning of Chapter 11, typed in from the Penguin Edition.
Nov 21, 2000
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A virtuouso lambast of consumption culture from Lewis Lapham.
Nov 1, 2000
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Cookery and love, love, love
Nov 1, 2000
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Ford motor company has damaged my brand equity, so I’m suing. This is, for those who have a little trouble with the concept and have seen fit to send me death threats, a joke.
Nov 29, 2000
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Jim Hightower encapsulates the horror of big money politics in a few paragraphs.
Nov 26, 2000
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An extremely clear definition, from Booknotes, 1994
Nov 26, 2000
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From John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Anatomy of Power, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 4-6.
Jan 27, 2001
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R. C. Lewontin proposes a third approach to analysis.
Feb 18, 2001
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The sun stands still in the sky.
Mar 17, 2001
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Pet Van Sommers explains his feelings about analyzing jealousy through the lens of literature; from his 1988 book Jealousy.
Jun 19, 2001
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From “George Washington” in In the American Grain, a collection of essays by William Carlos Williams, © 1933, (pp 142-144).
Jun 21, 2001
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This poem hung on my wall for years, until I began to look a little like it.
Feb 7, 2002
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It is rude to stare at ladies in the street.
Feb 19, 2002
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Folk dance like a wave of the sea.
Sep 9, 2002
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Montaigne - actually his father - predicts HotJobs.com, 430 years before an IPO.
Oct 2, 2002
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When in doubt, sleep on the floor and drink water.
Oct 3, 2002
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Practical advice on obtaining a perfectly moral bearing. From his autobiography.
Feb 3, 2003
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The table of contents from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by Mrs. S. T. Rorer.
Feb 23, 2003
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Author William Gibson nearly blows up the world.
Apr 21, 2003
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Rap by a Democratic Congressman from New York, originally published in the Congressional Record, 23 July, 2002.