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    <body><![CDATA[This is the most powerful book I have ever read about writing and life.  Cixous power is that she not only writes as a critic but as a poet.  Her lines are tight and a times lyrical.  <br/><br/>The are so many facets to this book that I read it over and over again and always find something new.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am disappointed in how the second section swerves toward the maternal as its rungs along the ladder, a theoretical misstep in my estimation, but almost redeemed by the later insistence of the imund book, and a final call toward no conclusion]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book that inspired me to study literature...One of the best books I've ever read...a book that lived in me before I read it...a coming home.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[doubtful this makes writing any easier, but it is amusing nonetheless]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Changed my life irrevocably. Grandiose but true!]]></body>
    
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