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Wall Street
The man in the fancy suit is notsome gentleman;he is a securities analyston Wall Street.
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Philosophy
Philosophy is oftentimes the result of a misbalanced material life. The rich man is in it because he has more than enough money while the loser guy is in it because he has no girlfriend. Real men and...
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Rushdie on Hitch
Not very long after I posted about Christopher Hitchens, the man handed in his dinner pail (in Houston, Texas) leaving many like me who have not even met him strangely bereft. Love him or hate him, it...
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Meretricious
I came to this article through a friend of mine. I clicked on it thinking the title sounded interesting, only to find a sermon. Look at how many times pornography makes it appearance. It reminds me of...
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Saturday Pages no.1
[I am trying something like this for the first time. Thanks to Jenny and Ali...]I should have run then. My heart was pounding in my chest. But the devil was in me, and instead of running I looked at...
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Plates on a Wall
Waiting for my to-go burger, my eyes settled on a small plate stuck on a wall. The caricature in the plate's middle seemed too familiar. Well, at least it did to me because the character was in no way...
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Saturday Pages no.2-Books We Love Blogfest
Re-direct from Jenny on some books I love...1. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome“What it was that was actually the matter with us, we none of us could be sure of; but the unanimous opinion was...
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Lending Books
Lending Out Books by Hal SirowitzYou're always giving, my therapist said.You have to learn how to take. Wheneveryou meet a woman, the first thing you dois lend her your books. You think she'll have to...
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Fakebook
You would agree with the spirit of the "Dont's" in this, though some of them are downright obvious and hence silly. The "Do's" are the ones that seem staged and pollyannaish. "Just finished Plato’s...
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Change of Air?
Robert Louis Stevenson thought him “unmanly”, but the Scot wouldn't have thought scientists would be using the man's jottings for the impacts on climate change. I agree some scientists, their zeal...
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At the Registrar's
She walked in,carrying big eyes and big dreamslike a marsupial its precious joeys.She spoke in an assertive drizzle(people usually shout just becausethere is a glass in between us).I pulled the slid-in...
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Beware of Imitations
"The soul of man today is conditioned. Man has trapped his soul and has no plans of releasing it...," I wrote a few years ago, hoping to cleverly start an enlightening essay on the human condition in...
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Forgetting
I am looking for the essay "On Forgetting" or just "Forgetting", a charming account of the travails of possessing an unreliable memory by the early 20th century Irish essayist Robert Lynd (I read when...
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Off the Mark
A story by Khushwant Singh comes to mind when I read this. Quite spookily, it was called The Mark of Vishnu.
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Forgetting (found it!)
Here's the essay I was looking for–A list of articles lost by railway travelers and now on sale at a great London station has been published and many people who have read it have been astonished at the...
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Ranting...
Oscar Wilde said a book is either good or bad. Man had a point. When you read that someone like Tammy Bruce has written three books, you are at once filled with disappointment and hope. Disappointment...
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Misplaced Balance
I had heard of G.K. Chesterton mainly through random quotes that appeared from now and then. That, and of course, Wodehouse's description in one of his stories: The drowsy stillness of the summer...
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Guff Guru
Nirmal Shekar used to write well on sport–tennis being his specialty, and that was in the pre-Sampras era when Lendl, Becker and Edberg (to name three) were around. Nowadays he has all the attributes...
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Love
Kleinman: This is the first time in my life that I can actually do something I love.Almstead: Love? Just make sure that love doesn't interfere with your duties.–Shadows and Fog (1991), Dir: Woody...
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Childbirth
My children give meagonies of anhonest, soul-tearing laborand are born like Caesar.Yours are bornlike Nature intendedand live like Caesar.
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A friend of mine recently posted on Facebook his impression of what reading his old emails sounded like. He was surprised at the level of naivete that bordered on the risible. I agreed with him that he...
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"Old Stoker appeared reluctant to set himself up as a judge of male beauty. He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage, but refused to commit himself further. Dwight, a solemn child, was...
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"I do think one of the characteristics of our age is the growth of this culture of offendedness. It's got something to do with the rise of identity politics, where you are invited to define your...
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