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                        <title>built from junk</title>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I wonder if the reason we are all so fascinated by vampires is that we *are* vampires, draining the blood from our land.  Is that why we want to see this as desirable and glamorous?  Is that why we long to confess?]]></content:encoded>
       			
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                        <title>don&#8217;t shoot</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>gun control and the bulletless cruelties</dc:creator>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Jeez, America, stop shooting each other. At least in Australia we only drown refugee babies, jail children, beat young Indigenous men to death in jail cells with phone books. I am thinking today of the Albanian security guard who came out of her way to welcome us to the Cloisters, a museum in Tryon Park [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
       			
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                        <title>Four Horsemen</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>a very invigorating documentary</dc:creator>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;To truly understand something is to be liberated from it.&#8221; This fascinating film held me riveted. It&#8217;s completely reinvigorated my view of the everyday life I lead and its purpose. I&#8217;m so glad I stumbled on it. Hooray, humanity, I love you and I will serve.]]></content:encoded>
       			
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                        <title>a night and a day</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/a-night-and-a-day/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>Bangkok</dc:creator>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I spent 36 hours in Bangkok and it seemed to me just like the Jakarta of my childhood, that dense crowded lost world. Our flight was three hours late and I had missed the shared minibus from the airport. A series of people gave me courteously conflicting advice. You must go to Gate 3. Go [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
       			
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                        <title>new under the sun</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 12:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>the kindly man who begs in cafes</dc:creator>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Walking through the park in the unexpected sunshine yesterday I realised suddenly: strolling through summer in Berlin is like strolling through an off-duty circus. People are riding bicycles with no hands, they are taking turns practising walking slack rope, one man is playing the tuba and another is set up with his slap box between [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
       			
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                        <title>grappapa</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>why we fought and how we made it up though I was in a bar</dc:creator>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I found a bar lit solely by candles. To get there I had to pass twenty-five Christmas trees, laid out to die on the stones. A wax-stick notice scribbled in the window of a nearby cafe said, Be at least epic. I found a bar I liked and it took me two passes to work [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
       			
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