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stuff to do

I only took one English class at university, it was a short fiction class, but we didn’t discuss any of Salinger’s work. So I was pretty excited when I stumbled across this lecture. I’m quick to poke fun at the uselessness of the internet and television, but then something like this pops up. I promise [...]
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best parents ever

So at dinner tonight, my parents handed me this book and that first edition Franny and Zooey I was pining over. Amazing. I was nervous just holding the books.  I would’ve scanned the Franny&Zooey but I didn’t want to bend the spine. I’m really excited to read these stories, I haven’t read them before. It’s such a [...]
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nice books

I always love inspecting people’s bookshelves. It’s like stepping into their brain. Here are just a few of my favorite reads.  My b.a. advisor J.Z. Smith introduced me to Ernst Cassirer my second year at chicago and I was a fan ever since. I spent a lot of time with The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms vol.2  in [...]
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