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Month: January 2006

  • Presumed Intelligence

    Suppose you are walking along a beach and you come across these lines scrawled in the sand: Our vegetable love would grow Vaster than empires and more slow What would you think? That you had received a message from God That some human had been musing on Andrew Marvell’s poetry That some random process of…

  • Prayer’s Purpose

    For many people prayer is a what you do when the situation is out of your control. If you can’t stop your child from using drugs or you can’t seem to get out from under a mountain of debt or you can’t seem to attract the admiration of that cute girl in your history class,…

  • Bad Memory

    James Frey ( The Trouble With Memoirs — Jan. 23, 2006 — Page 1) appears to have lied in his memoirs. I think the publisher must bear some responsibility when he shopped his book first as fiction, then changed it to a memoir before it was published. I can just hear the publisher’s lackey telling…