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Brian Jay Jones
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I’m back from BIO 2012 and will have a full report for you just as soon as I can. In the meantime, I’m working hard to wrap up things on Jim Henson — which, trust me, is what you want me doing, instead of blogging.
Until then, head for the lobby!
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Washington Irving: An American Original
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King
― Stephen King
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.”
― Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller
― Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller
“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)”
― David McCullough
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)”
― David McCullough
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