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the egocentric eccentricites of a literature student in libya, each day at breakfast indignant over some distant disaster
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Translation: In the Arab World You Live
Poem by Tamim Barghouti:In The Arab World You Live(my translation)In the Arab world, you liveLike a cat living under a carEyes seeing nothing of this world but shoes.In the Arab world, you liveLike a clown,Under you,A clown you step on,And on your he...
Conflict of Loyalty
Sweden and the Minarets
One in four Swedes are against the building of minarets, apparently. In the poll, 26% were against, 44% said they should be allowed, and 30% were undecided. I wouldn't have been surprised if there had been a larger number agains...
Serial Novels and Works in Progress
The potted history of the serial novel is well-documented, dating back to The Thousand and One Nights, with its frame of vizier's daughter Scheherazade narrating hook-laden stories to avoid execution by King Shahryar. Its heyday was the 19th century,...
Enchantment of Reading
It is. . . easy to account for this enchantment. To follow the chain of perplexed ratiocination, to view with critical skill the airy architecture of systems, to unravel the web of sophistry, or weigh the merits of opposite hypotheses, requires persp...
Hyperfiction Links
From Orality to Literacy to Hypertext: Back to the Future?Why Hyperfiction Didn't WorkRole Playing Games as Interactive Fiction...
