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  • Why did the Mariner Press cover all of the books that make up Dos Passos' USA with media objects? Typewriter-for obvious reasons, Dos Passos characters are obsessed with the materiality ...
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  • There has always existed a certain element of materialism that pervades our modern society. I have witnessed such unscrupulous behavior that permeates even the most sacred institutions such as the ...
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  • In search of my importance in the scheme of life. Well, that's pretty important to me and evidently just a blip on the blink of someone else's grey matter. Or ...
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  • There were, Alex thought, certain watersheds in a person's life; those moments that suddenly accelerated a boy to a man, a husband to a father. The latter self-explanatory, the former ...
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  • Today was a very boring day for me. I just sat around the house, watched football, and finished up on most of my homework. I am a very bad procrastinator ...
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  • The stage coach jolted to a stop, brought up short by the hastily reined in horses. A horrible wet sound cut through the panting of the horses, swearing of the ...
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  • Everyone needs guidelines, it's the lack of them when things get interesting... Why does it have to be such a game? Why can't everyone just be themselves and get to ...
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  • One page per day!! I don't know if I can manage a page a day, let alone a sentence. You see, I got the Olympic gold for Advanced Procrastination, and ...
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  • // New, Unique Blog? So, for the longest time, I've been wanting to do a regular blog. The only problem is, I've been spending too much time just getting the ...
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  • Felix smiled. "Aren't you going to ask for my medallion? For proof?" "Oh! Yes, please," and the lad flushed, looking away so that Felix practically had to thrust the medallion ...
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