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	<title>LRB blog &#187; Jim Holt</title>
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		<title>Poem of Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[for his stalwart but sometimes uncouth friend, Christopher Hitchens Don&#8217;t tipple at tiffin1 Or roar2 for your rum. Don&#8217;t scowl at a griffin3 – You&#8217;ll only look dumb. Don&#8217;t nobble your neighbour4 Or haver5 at bees; But strive to be kindly And always to please.6 Notes: 1 Hitchens is known to imbibe immoderately at luncheon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghastly Vision II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In (another) ghastly vision of future desolation, Lord Byron foresees my family&#8217;s Thanksgiving dinner yesterday: &#8230;a meal was bought With blood, and each sate sullenly apart Gorging himself in gloom; no love was left&#8230; &#8216;Darkness&#8217;, lines 39-41]]></description>
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		<title>Ghastly Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a ghastly vision of future desolation, Lord Byron foresees the contemporary American novelist&#8217;s dust-jacket photo: &#8230; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenchéd hands, and smiled &#8216;Darkness&#8217;, lines 25-26]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Lévi-Strauss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8216;Slate&#8217;, 9 February 1999: Last week I went to Claude Lévi-Strauss&#8217;s 90th birthday party at the Collège de France. It seemed an unremarkable occasion at first. Though the courtyard of the Collège de France is fittingly grand for the republic&#8217;s premiere scholarly institution, the rooms inside are meanly proportioned and shabby. The three dozen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morgenbesserisms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser (1921-2004) was an odd case. For decades he held the prestigious John Dewey chair in philosophy at Columbia University. Before that, he was mentor to Hilary Putnam. Yet he rarely wrote anything. Instead, like Socrates, he was known for his viva voce philosophising. He was also known for his &#8216;zingers&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
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