***HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Semicolon/A;ex!***
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quote: "He who speaks in a written text is absent; you can’t interrupt him, propose questions, observations, comments. It’s a peculiar dialogue of two solitary people, but how much more alive sometimes than many of our conversations." (Rafael Cadenas)
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links: "hallelujah" is the most popular song ever as of right now (@boston globe), when girls will be boys (@ny times), does airborne work? (@slate.com), politicians and prostitutes (@feministing), "sylvia plath's poetry is "appalling" but it is also exhilarating. she embodied a seismic shift in consciousness which enabled us to think and feel as we do today": the mother of so much (@guardian uk), tao lin says promote my career for me (@reader of depressing books), did elliot spitzer get caught 'cause he didn't spend enough on prostitutes? (@slate.com), the official vulture statute of limitations on spoilers (@nymag)