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		<title>On Thin Ice: Two Russians Skate Off the Reservation</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2010/01/29/on-thin-ice-two-russians-skate-off-the-reservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A loin-clothed homage to Aboriginal peoples backfires. By ERIC FELTEN Wall Street Journal OPINION: DE GUSTIBUS JANUARY 28, 2010, 7:55 P.M. ET, wsj.com Russian figure-skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, who have been favorites to win gold medals at next month&#8217;s Vancouver Olympics, thought they had found an admirably multicultural theme for their ice-dancing routine—an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2671&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Fetish About Footnotes?</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2010/01/29/why-the-fetish-about-footnotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of academe, Web clicking would be too easy. By MARK BAUERLEIN Wall Street Journal OPINION: TASTE JANUARY 28, 2010, 7:38 P.M. ET, wsj.com Is there a college graduate alive who doesn&#8217;t react to the words &#8220;footnotes&#8221; and &#8220;bibliography&#8221; with at least a small shiver of lingering dread? But while the citations, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2664&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of No Meaning :: Jennie Yabroff</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2010/01/25/the-meaning-of-no-meaning-jennie-yabroff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jennie Yabroff &#124; NEWSWEEK Published Jan 15, 2010 [From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010] Joshua Ferris&#8217;s first novel, Then We Came to the End, a comic look at work culture during economic upheaval, was a bestselling National Book Award finalist that propelled Ferris into Next Great American Novelist territory. So when you hear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2641&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preface (excerpt) to Poems from the Book of Hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[T]he monk who is the imaginary author of the poems is represented as an adherent of the peculiar faith that Rilke ascribed to his spiritual kinsmen, a faith in a God remote from the august if benign Father of western Christianity, a God, rather, who is waiting to be born of the artist&#8217;s alert and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2582&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The death of Virginia Woolf</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/12/09/the-death-of-virginia-woolf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather. It is 1941. Another war has begun. She has left a note for Leonard, and another for Vanessa. She walks purposefully toward the river, certain of what she&#8217;ll do, but even now she is almost distracted by the sight of the downs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2392&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gods :: Vladimir Nabokov</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/10/28/gods-vladimir-nabokov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is what I see in your eyes right now: rainy night, narrow street, streetlamps gliding away into the distance. The water runs down the drainpipes from steeply sloping roofs. Under the snake&#8217;s-mouth of each pipe stands a green-hooped bucket.  Rows of buckets line the black walls on either side of the street. I watch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2334&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Fiction :: Virginia Woolf</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/09/21/modern-fiction-virginia-woolf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In making any survey, even the freest and loosest, of modern fiction, it is difficult not to take it for granted that the modern practice of the art is somehow an improvement upon the old. With their simple tools and primitive materials, it might be said, Fielding did well and Jane Austen even better, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2202&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beatles: Rock Band; Impressive Review</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/09/06/beatles-rock-band-impressive-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 1, 2009 THERE may be no better way to bait a baby boomer than to be anything less than totally reverential about the Beatles. So the news that the lads from Liverpool were taking fresh form in a video game (a video game!) called The Beatles: Rock Band struck some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2164&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cities of the Red Night :: William S. Burroughs</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/08/25/cities-of-the-red-night-william-s-burroughs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cities of the Red Night were six in number: Tamaghis, Ba’dan, Yass-Waddah, Waghdas, Naufana, and Ghadis. These cities were located in an area roughly corresponding to the Gobi Desert, a hundred thousand years ago. At that time the desert was dotted with large oases and traversed by a river which emptied into the Caspian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2124&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I am the size of what I see!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/08/16/i-am-the-size-of-what-i-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[109 [3.24.1930] Receiving what I felt to be an inspiration and a liberation, I passively reread those simple verses by Caeiro, his natural account of the results of the small size of his village. He says that because his village is small, it&#8217;s possible to see more of the world from it than from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2096&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Readers and Good Writers :: Vladimir Nabokov</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/08/09/good-readers-and-good-writers-vladimir-nabokov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures. . . . The following is Nabokov&#8217;s introduction to his Lectures on Literature, a series of lectures he gave covering Jane Austen&#8217;s Mansfield Park, Charles Dickens&#8217; Bleak House, Gustave Flaubert&#8217;s Madame Bovary, Robert Luis Stevenson&#8217;s &#8220;The Strange Case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1358&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The novelist is all of us, and we narrate when we see, because seeing is as complex as everything else</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/08/09/and-we-narrate-when-we-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sineokov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[276 Literature &#8212; art wed to thought, attained without the stain of reality &#8212; seems to me to be the goal toward which every human effort ought to strive, if that effort were really human and not an animal superfluity. I think that to say a thing is to retain its virtue and throw out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2069&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>streetlights * burning * down</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/07/30/streetlights-burning-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[73 [n.d.; 1929?] The clock over there in the back, in the house deserted because everyone is asleep, slowly drops the clear, quadruple sound of four o&#8217;clock in the morning. I haven&#8217;t gone to sleep yet, nor do I expect to sleep. Unless something catches my attention, in which case I will not sleep, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=2033&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics and the English Language :: George Orwell</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/07/23/politics-and-the-english-language-george-orwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language &#8212; so the argument runs &#8212; must inevitably share in the general collapse. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1904&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stranger-God</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/07/23/the-stranger-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That night he had a terrible dream, if dream is the right word for a bodily and mental experience which did indeed overtake him during deepest sleep, in complete independence of his will and with complete sensuous vividness, but with no perception of himself as present and moving about in any space external to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1898&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Mário de Sá-Carneiro :: Fernando Pessoa</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/07/17/letter-to-mario-de-sa-carneiro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[3.14.1916] I&#8217;m writing to you today out of sentimental necessity &#8212; I have an anguished, painful need to speak to you. It&#8217;s easy to see that I have nothing to tell you. Just this: that I find myself today at the bottom of a bottomless depression. The absurdity of the sentence speaks for me. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1685&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche&#8217;s Jesus</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/07/13/nietzsches-antijesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;. . . . he had denied any chasm between God and man, he lived this unity of God and man as his &#8216;glad tidings&#8217; . . . .&#8221; &#8220;One sees what came to an end with the death on the Cross: a new, an absolutely primary beginning to a Buddhistic peace movement, to an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1323&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pleasures of Rereading :: David Gates</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/07/06/the-pleasures-of-rereading-david-gates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWSWEEK Published Jun 27, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Jul 13, 2009 Above the table on which I&#8217;m now writing hangs an old framed print showing Mr. Pickwick&#8217;s street-smart servant, Sam Weller, prophetically pointing out to his chubby little master—in tights, gaiters, and spectacles—a vast, teeming mob of tiny figures: the characters Charles Dickens was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1616&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rapture of the Nerds</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/05/27/rapture-of-the-nerds-nytimes-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 21:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coming Superbrain By JOHN MARKOFF Published: May 23, 2009 The New York Times Mountain View, Calif. — It’s summertime and the Terminator is back. A sci-fi movie thrill ride, “Terminator Salvation” comes complete with a malevolent artificial intelligence dubbed Skynet, a military R.&#38;D. project that gained self-awareness and concluded that humans were an irritant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1479&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O my brothers, break, break the old tablets!</title>
		<link>http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/04/25/o-my-brothers-break-break-the-old-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the old gods, after all, things came to an end long ago; and verily, they had a good gay godlike end. They did not end in a &#8220;twilight,&#8221; though this lie is told. Instead: one day they laughed themselves to death. That happened when the most godless word issued from one of the gods [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefloatinglibrary.com&amp;blog=3969920&amp;post=1313&amp;subd=benprice&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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