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Archive for August, 2008

lourdes

I’m listening to the unabridged audio of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.
This is what baptism should feel like.

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gossip

I was in the worst living situation. I was in the land of ten thousand roaches, and infinite chiggers. And I was looking around, like a driven maniac, desperately casting about for any other living situation. Actually, not any other situation. I knew how easily one could allow desperation to take hold, then jump with [...]

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‘Sometimes people get so used to what they see in films that they end up forgetting the real story,’ says a friend, as we stand together looking out over Miami harbour. ‘Do you remember The Ten Commandments?’
Of course I do. At one point, Moses - Charlton Heston - lifts up his rod, the waters part [...]

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