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          <body><![CDATA[will do. someone i like, some famous person, had in a q and a the other day that the road changed her life. i forget who it was. ]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Whatever you do, never bother reading Little Dorrit. The guy was making it up as he went along - for weekly periodicals, I think - and in the end, after 800 or so pages, it simply doesn't all make sense or add up. Call me old-fashioned but I didn't dig on that.<br/><br/>There was a Gopnik piece on all this a while ago, about how some new series of abridged classics actually rather seriously improved them - no middle, just the march, I guess. ]]></body>
        
    
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