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John Browning

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(poet, white sox fan, husband, father, grandfather, brother, knucklehead, Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey, U of Illinois Chicago, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Rutgers, library rat, music fan, artist ish, resident of the sixties)

(modernism, surrealism, 18th C, Old English, Middle English, Renaissance, art fan, philosophy, pseudo-intellectualism

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say nada, Kafka

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Sarah Curtis grew up to eventually flourish in the shadow of her father’s pervasive rock song, I Fought the Law, much as her father Sonny Curtis rose despite the legend (and shadow) of his old
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Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Gourmet Slow Cooker by Lynn Alley
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I use this book all the time. I haven't found a bad recipe. My favorites are the Chicken Piperade and the Tuscan White Bean Soup but many more are just as good. It's my go-to for the slow cooker. ...more
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Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
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I couldn't stop reading this one - an amazing psychological portrait of a slacker character, Jake Donoghue, told in high comic fashion by an excellent word and storysmith, In terms of novelistic art, this one really rates high in my book. I certainly ...more
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William S. Burroughs
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
William S. Burroughs

James Joyce
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

Stephen Spender
“All that you can imagine you already know”
Stephen Spender

Dylan Thomas
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
Dylan Thomas

Dorothy Parker
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
Dorothy Parker

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Are you looking for a women's reading/discussion group to contribute and learn knowledge about feminist history and philosophy? I'm a recent college g ...more
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