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Happy Halloween

To all of you who did not have your back inappropriately rubbed by a ghost when you were in college in a guest room of a pre-revolutionary dorm at Smith, I hope you have a really great time tonight.

My memories and I will be here at home, if you need anything.

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“Truth and beauty are educatory in themselves. The very fact of representing the left wing, or a “wing” of any sort, implies a partisan position and nonobjectivity. For that reason, one is impotent to criticize in a valid sense. Social criticism must necessarily, and always, be an extremely superficial thing. But don’t misunderstand me. Writers, like all artists, are concerned with representing reality, to create a more absolute and complete reality than reality itself. They must, if they are to accomplish this, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude; in consequence, their beliefs are, of course, going to find their way into their work. What artists believe, however, is of secondary importance, ancillary to the work itself. A writer survives in spite of his beliefs. Lawrence will be read whatever one thinks of his notions on sex. Dante is read in the Soviet Union.”—- Alberto Moravia

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Oct 9, 2010

#cherlloydforpresident #xfactor

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The Award for Most Unexpected Path In a Review of The Social Network goes to....

Richard Corliss!

A film this rich emits all kinds of literary and cinematic reverberations. One thinks, just among the Zs, of Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound, about the unwanted attention a novelist gets after writing a blockbuster best seller; and of the zip and sass of the Airplane!, Naked Gun and Hot Shots! movies made by the Zucker brothers.

Far too many reviewers overlooked the shockwaves this film will send through the artistic community of people whose names start with Z. Hats off to Corliss for bringing this to light.

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Rushfield Babylon

October 2010

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