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	<title>Curculio</title>
	<link>http://curculio.org</link>
	<description>Michael Hendry's weblog</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation of the Day</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=230</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=230#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Culture: Fiction</category>
	<category>Ephemerides</category>
	<category>- Quotations</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of three rivals in love, from a Brazilian novel set in the 1850s:
(Note: the aunt and the baroness are one and the same.)
He was a young man of about twenty-five or twenty-six. His name was Jorge. He wasn't ugly, but artifice had ruined a little the work of nature on him. Too much attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unidiomatic Spam</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=229</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=229#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Orbilius</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I see the subject-line "How to handle wild babies?", I can't help thinking of feral infants: an interesting concept for a horror movie, if it hasn't already been done. (I'm not much interested in horror movies, so I wouldn't know.) Presumably the spammers mean 'wild babes' and are just too incompetent to get even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aphorism of the Day</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=228</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=228#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ephemerides</category>
	<category>- Aphorisms</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He sido para m&iacute;, disc&iacute;pulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen disc&iacute;pulo, pero un mal maestro.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
(Antonio Porchia, Voices, tr. W. S. Merwin, 2003, pp. 86-7)
Oddly, though he provides the Spanish text on the left-hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unusually Vain Vanity Plate</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=227</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=227#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Orbilius</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seen on a new or nearly new Saab 9-3 convertible:
SNAAB
Too bad the car was an unattractive shade of green, because the pun is excellent. ]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise Lost II</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=226</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=226#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 22:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Nachleben</category>
	<category>Culture: Poetry</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Notes from my reading of Book II:
1. Again the passage that most struck me was a classicizing bit, a simile describing Satan's journey through Chaos (943-50):
As when a Gryfon through the Wilderness
With winged course ore Hill or moarie Dale,
Persues the Arimaspian, who by stelth
Had from his wakeful custody purloind
The guarded Gold: So eagerly the Fiend
Ore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise Lost I</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=225</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 22:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Nachleben</category>
	<category>Culture: Poetry</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I started a new job two months ago, and now teach part-time at two different high schools. Oddly, I seem to have more spare time for reading now, partly because I have to get to work at the new school at 7:00 to avoid rush-hour traffic, but don't meet any of my students until 8:15. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotation of the Day</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=224</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=224#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Nachleben</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Topsius, a fictional German professor of Biblical archaeology who drinks beer with his breakfast:
Socrates &eacute; a semente; Plat&atilde;o a fl&ocirc;r; Aristoteles o fructo . . . E d'esta arvore, assim completa, se tem nutrido o espirito humano!
(E&ccedil;a de Queiroz, A Rel&iacute;quia, III)
Socrates is the seed, Plato the flower, Aristotle the fruit; and on this tree, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What About Copies of Copies?</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=223</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=223#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 21:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ephemerides</category>
	<category>- Aphorisms</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Les seules bonnes copies sont celles qui nous font voir le ridicule des m&eacute;chants originaux.
The only good copies are those which show up the absurdity of bad originals.
(La Rochefoucauld, Maximes 133, translated by Leonard Tancock) ]]></description>
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		<title>Most, Not All</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=222</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=222#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 22:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ephemerides</category>
	<category>- Aphorisms</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[La plupart des jeunes gens croient &ecirc;tre naturels, lorsqu'ils ne sont que mal polis et grossiers.
Most young people think they are being natural when really they are just ill-mannered and crude.
(La Rochefoucauld, Maximes 372, translated by Leonard Tancock) ]]></description>
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		<title>How to Tell It&#8217;s Time to Quit Surfing the Web and Cook Dinner</title>
		<link>http://curculio.org/?p=221</link>
		<comments>http://curculio.org/?p=221#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://curculio.org/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you see a review of a book entitled Ius Latinum and think "Mmmmm . . . gravy". ]]></description>
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