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My Incomplete Reading List, I can't recall everything. My supply of new books has been curtailed through lack of space. The up side of this is that I've been re-reading books quite a lot this year. The list also shows a lack of focus on any particular genre. I seem to be leaving a recent Greek phase and looking for something else.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The wind up bird by Haruki Murakami
2 Dan Browns (Unwanted ...

Black Velvet Band

I remember the touch of the black velvet band
lain against milky white flesh, soft upon the throat,
carrisive velvet wakens sweet sentiments,
while far away, the music plays and I dream
of gentle constraints which steel my breath
slowly away, inch by inch, my heart beats
the counts, of those drums which role across
distant hills. I smile to myself and close my eyes
while I drift upon these silken strands

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With the completion of the paintings for the Stanzas in the Vatican, Raphael's began to broaden his interests and his efforts. He began to apply himself seriously in many fields in a manner that would soon make him one of he wealthiest and most well-respected (and well-connected) artists of the period. He formed something of a partnership with the engraver, Marcantonio Raimondi, who began to produce engraved copies of his paintings, such as his St. Cecilia:

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My 2009 reading list:

Ehh, 2009 was a stressful year and when compared to other years I read very little. Oh well. Re-reads are counted in here as well.

Being and Time - Martin Heidigger
Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
Roughing It - Mark Twain
Protagoras - Plato
Writing and Difference - Jacques Derrida
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part I and II - William Shakespeare
Richard III - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Nights Dream - William ...