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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Lady from Portugal&quot; is a clever story on modern european identity rich in metaphors worthy of poetry.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[He's like a house with locked doors. All he has done is within him, like a gentle music perhaps - but who can hear it?<br/><br/>-Robert Musil, Five Women]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It really bored me. It was a disappointment after &quot;The Man Without Qualities&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All the stories are great, but 'The Perfecting of Love' blew me away.  An INCREDIBLY unique voice, Musil blends together stream of consciousness with simply some of the most gorgeous imagery I have ever read.  His background in science emerges through the dazzling use of geometrical, physiological, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19201848">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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