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I appreciate any sort of feedback. :)

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It's always interesting to hear what people's earliest memories are...

Mine isn't that interesting and I'm not really sure how old I was when it happened, but it has a kind of hazy, real quality...

“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.” - Jean Sibelius

There's something ineffably sad about My Ántonia. Aside from the fact that Jim and Ántonia don't end up together, which is pretty obvious from beginning. There's just something in the book's...

Stephen Dedalus
Pilate Dead from Morrison's Song of Solomon
Huck Finn
Holden Caulfield
Dilsey from The Sound and the Fury

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Flowers?

I read Kafka on the Shore a while back. It was OK. I had heard a lot about Murakami and I was pumped to read the book, only to be underwhelmed once I finished it. Now, it seems from I've read and...

Love fresh pineapple, like it canned.

Cigars?

I'm hungry.

Sure do.

The next poster has been to Mexico.

Never Let Me Go was published in 2005 and it examines what it means to be human, through a glass, darkly. So yes, serious literature is still published and being written.

For many younger people, social networks seem to be a platform of performance. Through statuses, posts, and photos they can present a version of themselves that they want their friends to believe is...

Aura by Carlos Fuentes has an English/Spanish bilingual edition.

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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Buffalo wings?

Like.

Patchouli?

Don't mess with my TootToot
Don't mess with my TootToot
You can have the other woman
But don't mess with my TootToot

Thank you!

I'll also add Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.

Love (I'm a romantic)

Incense

Food is my thing. I'm really gifted at eating. I love all kinds of food, but I have to say I really like Chinese food...especially Schezuan dishes.

I read the English translation of Herztier, entitled The Land of the Green Plums, though I think a literal translation of the original title <I>Heartbeast</I> would have made for a more fitting and...

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by ee cummings.


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only...

Aside from the quote in my signature, probably "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." - William Faulkner. It's on the back of my copy of The Bear.

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee