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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:59:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Read Wilson's play &quot;Fences.&quot;  It packs a punch.<br/>It's a shame James Earl Jones gets more recognition for Star Wars than for his role as Troy Maxson in Fences.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:56:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[You are on an Italian kick, aren't you!  Here's another one that's been sitting on my shelf, unread, for more years than I care to count.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:54:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Many years ago, I petered out on this book about half way through, for no particular reason that I can remember except that it didn't enthrall me as I had expected.  I've always felt guilty about not finishing it since it's supposed to be such a classic.  I think in the end I was more intrigued by the circumstances of L's composition (the only thing he published after years of composing)than by the actual story.  It's still sitting on my shelf, so one of these years I'll go back to it, I hope.  I'll be curious to hear what you think of if, Monica.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:51:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[the movie is &quot;55 Days at Peking,&quot; starring Charleton Heston, David Niven, and Ava Gardner (so you can imagine who the good guys are).  I need to watch this again.  I'm sure I won't find it quite the heroic adventure I did as a kid.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:56:26 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[`Interesting, Igor.  I thought I'd read somewhere that Russian editions had cut that scene.  Too inflamatory, no doubt.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[I really liked Spence's The Question of Hu and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.  He's a meticulous historian but writes with the narrative subtlety of a novelist.]]></body>
        
    
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