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		<title>The Nose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nose.
I remember there was something wrong with a nose. Whose nose, I do not remember, but it was somebody&#8217;s nose. Maybe my nose. I do not remember.
The nose was there, yet it seemed it was not there. No eyes, no mouth&#8230;just a nose. Even the face was not there.
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		<title>Cabbages and Bamboo shoots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing to eat. Cabbages and bamboo shoots. Cabbages lasted for a week. After that, bamboo shoots were all he would find.
He ate bamboo shoots in the morning, bamboo shoots in the afternoon, bamboo shoots in the evening, bamboo shoots in between. He ate bamboo shoots for weeks, months.
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		<title>verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The judge was loud, bits and pieces of doma spewed out into the crowd. The crowd laughed. I smiled. The judge was furious. He could have just smiled and maintained a little decorum in the room.
You are worse than an animal. The judge judged me. I never saw any creature more precarious and snobbish than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmicdust.wordpress.com&blog=4180821&post=372&subd=cosmicdust&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>uses of lungs</title>
		<link>http://cosmicdust.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/uses-of-lungs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheap cigarettes.
It was cheap because everyone could afford to buy and smoke too, said someone who was dull but important.
Moreover, he added, everyone has the right to die of cancer, yes the lung one or the mouth one and even the other ones. Cancer, like any other form of disease that took away your life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmicdust.wordpress.com&blog=4180821&post=370&subd=cosmicdust&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom according to an old man</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always see him tilling the soil or plucking the weeds off the lawn. He coughs harshly without covering his mouth then looks at me and smiles, some teeth still remaining. He wears thick glasses.
Besides coughing, he does not seem to make much noise.
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		<title>short note</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suffering either strengthens or weakens a man&#8230;
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		<title>pǝddı1ɟ ɯ,ı &#8216;ʎǝɥ</title>
		<link>http://cosmicdust.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/p%c7%9dddi1%c9%9f-%c9%afi-%ca%8e%c7%9d%c9%a5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ǝɥ-ǝɥ-ǝɥ&#8230;ʞuıʇs ʎɯ ʇǝb noʎ ɟı &#8216;ʍou ,uıddı1ɟ ǝɥʇ 11ɐ ɯ,ı puɐ
&#8230;uoıʇɔǝɟɹǝd ʎɯ pǝuınɹ ɹǝǝq ,o ǝ1dnoɔ ɐ .ooʇ ɹɐɯɯɐɹb puɐ .sdɐɔ ǝɥʇ 11ɐ buıso1 ɯɐ ı &#8216;ʎɐʍ ǝɥʇ ʎq
&#8230;ʇɐǝɹb buıɥʇǝɯos buıop ɯ,ı ɟı sɐ ʇxǝʇ buıddı1ɟ ʇsnظ &#8216;ǝɹɐɥs oʇ buıɥʇou &#8216;ǝʇıɹʍ oʇ buıɥʇou &#8216;ǝɯıʇ ɟo ǝʇsɐʍ ɐ ʇsnظ sı sıɥʇ &#8216;ʎɐʍʎuɐ
¿ʇɐɥʍ ɹo ʇoıpı noʎ
&#8230;sʇxǝʇ dı1ɟ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmicdust.wordpress.com&blog=4180821&post=364&subd=cosmicdust&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lethargy</title>
		<link>http://cosmicdust.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/lethargy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a remote village, a foreigner drew a modest crowd around him. He smiled, panning his camcorder across a group of cheering and jumping children. Good, good, he said, and smiled some more.
Discorded music that almost sounded like faint beatings on cans and pots and pans or something like water drops falling on cans and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmicdust.wordpress.com&blog=4180821&post=357&subd=cosmicdust&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flies and mosquitoes</title>
		<link>http://cosmicdust.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/flies-and-mosquitoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I think I can just jump over this wall and find freedom. I know I will be caught, but wouldn’t it be a good try at least? You think I am mad, don’t you? Think what you will, I will not change my thoughts. Am I here because of my thoughts?
I do regret, yes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmicdust.wordpress.com&blog=4180821&post=355&subd=cosmicdust&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka off the shore</title>
		<link>http://cosmicdust.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/kafka-off-the-shore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis.
Why did i even start reading it? Granted it is not a thick book like the Brothers Karamazov, I failed &#8211; rather miserably &#8211; to complete the metamorphosis.
The Trial too.
The closest thing I got to understanding The Metamorphosis was Joseph Heller&#8217;s account of his own version of metamorphosis in The Portrait of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmicdust.wordpress.com&blog=4180821&post=352&subd=cosmicdust&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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