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    <![CDATA[What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going]]>
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    <![CDATA[In his debut collection, Damion Searls gives us five extraordinary tales of the life of the mind in America today. &quot;56 Water Street&quot; and &quot;Goldenchain&quot; follow writers whose projects only lead them deeper into the labyrinth of modern relationships and friendships. The nasty office satire &quot;The Cubicles&quot; and the atmospheric &quot;A Guide to San Francisco&quot; take place in the sun and fog of West Coast dreams. In the final story, &quot;Dialogue Between the Two Chief World Systems,&quot; a Hungarian beauty creates a scholarly conundrum with surprising parallels to the book as a whole.<br/><br/>Set amidst Ethiopian healing scrolls and sponges of the Adriatic and the guy who invented flashing the temperature on bank clocks, <em>What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going</em> plays in the intersection of knowledge and life in contemporary America. Searls's flights of fancy and painterly eye for detail introduce a range of intelligent characters feeling their way toward complex moral and personal truths.]]>
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