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		<title>I like birds.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If poets are crows, fiction writers are probably vultures; not so different in what we eat, but less loved and more ungainly.  We bald early and are occasionally mistaken for turkeys when seen out of our element.  We roost together, sometimes, great heavy flocks of us clotting thick in bare-branched trees, all of us dressed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2009/03/11/i-like-birds/</link>
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		<title>Dostoevsky, human beings, inability to create interesting titles.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been reading Dostoevsky recently&#8211;just finished Crime and Punishment last night; loved it so so so much.  It sounds strange, but even though I&#8217;d read The Idiot last semester and enjoyed it, I somehow was expecting to have more trouble with Crime and Punishment, or enjoy it less, or something.  But I didn&#8217;t, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2009/02/12/dostoevsky-human-beings-inability-to-create-interesting-titles/</link>
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		<title>uh.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kinda feel like I should start doing this again.
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		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2009/02/01/41/</link>
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		<title>Two very cool things.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One: Video enhancement using still photographs.
Two:  Yale grad student builds tiny house.  (Madeline, I think you especially would like this.)
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		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2008/08/19/two-very-cool-things/</link>
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		<title>The Bluest Eye.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I actually finished Toni Morrison&#8217;s The Bluest Eye late last night, but rather than write about it then I thought I&#8217;d wait for today.  And then I forgot, so it&#8217;s a little late tonight, too.  But oh well. 
I told a good friend that I&#8217;d read and liked it, and she was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2008/08/03/the-bluest-eye/</link>
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		<title>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.  (With parentheticals.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I think I have a little crush on Junot Diaz.  (Possible signs you&#8217;re a little dorky: infatuation based on words.)
(Brief note of frustration: I started this book Friday night and only just finished it this evening.  Where has my focus gone?  Towards the end of spring semester there was a night where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2008/07/30/the-brief-woundrous-life-of-oscar-wao-with-parentheticals/</link>
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		<title>More on books.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been cleaning and rearranging and going through lots of books, which has unearthed some I should have thought of before but hadn&#8217;t.  So here&#8217;s another list of links, this time with a little bit of commentary.
Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds
Barry Hughart, Eight Skilled Gentlemen
He wrote a third, The Story of the Stone, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2008/07/27/more-on-books/</link>
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		<title>Back in MD.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home now, for a given value of &#8220;home,&#8221; at least, which means I&#8217;m cleaning my butt off.  The process of packing makes it clear to me how much stuff I have accumulated, clear in a way it&#8217;s not when I&#8217;m living spread out.  Partially because things aren&#8217;t so compressed, partially because I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2008/07/25/back-in-md/</link>
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		<title>Music?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I&#8217;m feeling nerdy and Milton-y, I&#8217;ve put up a muxtape sort of based on class, I guess.  It&#8217;s here, and for posterity, here is the track listing: 
01.  Elbow &#8211; Weather to Fly
02.  The National &#8211; The Geese of Beverly Road
03.  Amy Annelle &#8211; Will Try
04.  Wintersleep &#8211; Jaws of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2008/07/23/music/</link>
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		<title>Foreshadowings, etc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today&#8217;s talk of typology was hugely interesting and now I sort of feel like I should go read the Bible through a couple times and try and catch some of this stuff myself.  But seeing as I am, like everyone else I think, being swallowed up by a paper at the moment, that doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halftruth.umwblogs.org/2008/07/21/foreshadowings-etc/</link>
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