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Sep.23.2011
Anna Karenina – Section Eight, by Leo Tolstoy
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Vronsky has received a note from Anna, written prior to her following him to the train station – begging him to return to her. With this in hand, and as he learns of Anna’s death, he’s devastated. Since he’s a...
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Sep.16.2011
Vampires have historically been considered evil, and were blamed for many little understood situations in the cultures that spawned them. But fictionally they are currently not considered 100% bad. Since they’re the living dead – creatures to be feared rather than desired – they...
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Jul.21.2011
My friend Ron Rosenbaum has written a “single” or short take for Kindle called Rescuing Evil. At $1.99, there is so much profound reflection packed into this essay that one must read it again and again, in my case obsessively. (One also prays that Ron will expand his single into an LP, a third book...
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Jul.09.2011
The Name Of The Rose, by Umberto Eco – Part 2
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It’s sometimes difficult in the best novels to separate philosophy from literature. I think this is because their authors (and you have to read a bit of literary theory to see how the two are commingled...
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May.07.2011
For Immediate Release: April 27, 2011 CHICAGO, IL. -- SUPERNATURAL/THRILLER FICTION AUTHOR, Deno Sandz, New Fiction Novella, “Blood Plantation” coming soon to Amazon.com and bookstores July 2011. Short Synopsis The Novella, “...
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Mar.16.2011
Oglesby’s writings give the characters that freedom in a literary novel about human vampires procreating with a vengeance and their antagonistic villains of society, which are no better than the protagonist that switches places throughout the novel.
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Mar.03.2011
I'm a thrill junky when it comes to books. What the Night Knows is Dean Koontz's latest thriller. It is a mix of supernatural evil and real-life unconscionable behavior. The reader definitely roots for the main character and his family, despite both the literal and figurative separation that...
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Dec.04.2010
The Good NewsHello my spiritual friend, as we fast approach the end of another year, as in the past few, I have tasked you to summarize what it is that you have garnered from the year’s blogs, writings, ect. This shall be no different, with one exception; this shall be a focus of our state of...
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Sep.08.2010
An Amish woman was killed in her buggy, rear-ended by an SUV. Who are you? There is a woman who is threatened with stoning in Iran. Who am I?
What happens within us when we learn these things?
Buddhists believe that all of what happens everywhere affects everyone and everything. Nothing is...
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Jul.31.2010
Kudos again to Ron Goldstein for his persistence in naming yesterday's line: it was from Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.
Today's line (well, more a complex thought than a line) is from a work of one of the U.S.'s great writers:
"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only...
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