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    <body><![CDATA[drunken rant transforms into social satire into spiritual parable. the drunken rant is kind of creaky -- just keep going till you get to the attic of the tavern which contains an entire country of savagely portrayed modern human types.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i am not ashamed to say that i decided to read this book simply because of the title.<br/><br/>it's not all that much about drinking, though. kind of like descartes's <em>meditations</em> meets what i imagine <em>gulliver's travels&lt;/i. to be like (haven't read it, she writes sheepishly), the narrator is car...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12470289">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should be required reading on the Adulthood Entrance Test.  It takes you for a swim in the wine-colored pond of the human subconscious, and then you have to learn to stay afloat.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ugh. file this under such heavy-handed allegories as flatland.  <br/><br/>more readable than flatland but not quite as immersive as the untameables.<br/><br/>i wonder if i will ever bother to read mount analogue.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[cuckoo-clock<br/><br/>&quot;Patchouli-scented breezes. Glycerine dews which never evaporate on lawns of waxed paper which never fade.<br/>Angels inside filmy skeins inflated with hydrogen floated through the cataracts of limelight, their soft hands waving aeolian harps from which there emerged li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51226889">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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