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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
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"I started out really liking this book--what can I say, she pulled at my tender heartstrings when she bitched about the bloated overclass--but I'm a fan of citing sources and studies...and, unfortunately, I don't think that there is one footnote or ci...more " | |||||||||||
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Barry's favorite quotes
""Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.""
— Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim (TV tie-in) (Penguin Classics))
— Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim (TV tie-in) (Penguin Classics))
""We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination." ~ Professor MacHugh"
— James Joyce (Ulysses)
— James Joyce (Ulysses)
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""It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them." (From the Introduction of 1941's The Garden of Forking Paths)"
— Jorge Luis Borges (Fictions (Penguin Modern Classics))
— Jorge Luis Borges (Fictions (Penguin Modern Classics))
Barry's writing
Rhode Island Quarter (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 04/05/2008 11:55AM
description:
I wrote this during the summer of 2001, when we still lived in Seattle.
College Fund (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 03/10/2008 07:41PM
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I got to see some of Margo Selski's works at the art museum in Fort Collins a few years back. Her paintings were wonderfully disturbing.
Sure, yeah, fine, just not right now (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 03/02/2008 06:03PM
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This story originally appeared on the web site of the now defunct (detecting a trend?) American Journal of Print in 2002.
untitled #1 (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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updated 02/15/2008 08:18PM
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This is a very short story that I wrote a few years back. I've tried to improve upon it but to no avail. I like it as it stands.
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