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in passing

the guy scraping his windshield sent raspy blasts of ice drops popping into the crisp cold air Damn shame I didn’t go with my buddy: he left for sunny Florida two days ago He didn’t use the colon on purpose … Continue reading

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grocery list

So often potatoes, bananas, bread and eggs butter, juice, veggies and an entré become a fascination: push a shopping cart trundle through aisles dodging other shoppers remembering the list: potatoes, bananas, bread and eggs butter, juice, veggies and an entré … Continue reading

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Poets: the new novelists

The Internet is rewiring our brains, according to Nicholas Carr’s July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”—I agree with Carr. Carr’s thesis is that hypertext links, like the one in the previous sentence, which give us instant … Continue reading

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