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All in a Day’s Work….ahh, Eels.
All in a Day’s Work by The Eels When I was born The doctor said There’s something wrong Inside that baby head When I was a boy In Sunday school I told them all That they were fools All in a day’s work...
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Another and Another: Reading as Inseparable from Life
From “Another and Another Before That: Some Thoughts on Reading” by Carl Phillips One way to look at reading: as the lifelong construction of a map by which to trace and plumb what it has ever meant to...
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What Keeps Mankind Alive?….Waits’ Way
What Keeps Mankind Alive : Performed by Tom Waits (Weill/Brecht) You gentlemen who think you have a mission To purge us of the seven deadly sins Should first sort out the basic food position Then start...
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Attila the Hun
Quotes attributed to Attila the Hun: There is Another Day Know that your most worthy efforts will be scorned by your peers, for it is they who suffer most when you excel. If your actions and ambitions...
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Stops the Heart Exploding
From Jeanette Winerson Language is what stops the heart exploding. Read the whole essay at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/ts-eliot-festival-donmar-jeanette-winterson
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The Memoir Changes: Nuala O’Faolain
A bit on memoir from the wonderful and painfully missed Nuala O’Faolain Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written… I was not at...
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On Fear
From Marie Curie “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
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What the Best College Teachers Do
From http://kprichardson.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/what-the-best-college-teachers-do-epilogue/ What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain Epilogue: What can we learn from them? 1. Part of being a...
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Start in the middle and fight our way out.
Fighting our way out “When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.” – Vickie Karp “No one is asking, let...
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