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		<title>This Poem Seems Appropriate Today</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto For certain people there comes a day when they are called upon to say the great Yes or the great No. It&#8217;s clear at once who has the Yes within him at the ready, which he will say as he advances in honor, in greater self-belief. He <a href='http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/11/07/this-poem-seems-appropriate-today/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha by Karen Armstrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with Armstrong&#8217;s little biography of Buddha is that the Buddha has no biography &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of being a Buddha. There are fragments of biographical material on Siddhartha Gotama, of course, &#38; quite a lot of historical &#38; cultural information about his place &#38; time. That&#8217;s what Armstrong uses to write <a href='http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/09/30/buddha-by-karen-armstrong/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Old Guy</title>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/29/old-guy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several people in my academic department who have been around the university more years than me, but I have the second most &#8220;seniority in rank,&#8221; an admittedly obscure academic concept that just means I&#8217;ve been a full professor longer than all but one of my colleagues, even though there are others who have been <a href='http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/29/old-guy/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fog This Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[River Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First cool morning, with fog over the river, now breaking up. Sunlight illuminating a low branch of a white pine across the road.]]></description>
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		<title>Home from Far-Flung Travels</title>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/28/home-from-far-flung-travels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Clarkson semester began yesterday, though my classes start today.I&#8217;m back from six weeks in Hanoi &#38; a week at Zen Mountain Monastery &#38; now the rhythm of the year shifts into something that feels more like routine. The idea, of course, is to keep it from becoming merely routine. I know it is not <a href='http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/28/home-from-far-flung-travels/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cranking Out Sentences</title>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/18/cranking-out-sentences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How come cranks, who are full of bunk, so often take a &#8220;debunking&#8221; tone? I&#8217;m interested in sentences &#38; where they come from &#38; I was hopeful that Verlyn Klinkenborg&#8217;s little essay in the NY Times would shed some light on that deep question. But all that we find out reading the essay is that <a href='http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/18/cranking-out-sentences/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>48 Hours!</title>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/11/48-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sleep]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cops]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I went out to catch the taxi to the airport in Hanoi, I started the stopwatch on my iPhone, which continues to tick off seconds even when the phone is powered down. I hit &#8220;stop&#8221; when Carole pulled into our driveway in South Colton. Forty-eight hours, two minutes &#38; fifty-three seconds: that&#8217;s how long <a href='http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/11/48-hours/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Last Evening in Hanoi</title>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/05/last-evening-in-hanoi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jd</dc:creator>
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		<title>Noted Without Comment</title>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/05/noted-without-comment-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jd</dc:creator>
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		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/05/andres-neumans-traveler-of-the-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading Andrés Neuman&#8217;s audacious novel, Traveler of the Century &#38; am still thinking about the way the title frames the novel, which is sent in 19th century Germany. My current idea is that Hans, the novel&#8217;s protagonist, is a kind of time-traveler from the 21st century who has gone back to the period in <a href='http://www.sharpsand.net/2012/08/05/andres-neumans-traveler-of-the-century/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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