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1 [lbo-talk] Elegy for John Donne -- rank: 734

Thanks to Jordan Hayes for pointing out that the attachment didn't work. [Great] Elegy to John Donne John ... beside are sleeping too: walls, bed, and floor all sleep. The table, pictures, carpets, hooks and bolts, clothes-closets, cupboards, candles, curtains all now sleep: the washbowl, bottle, tumbler, bread, breadknife and china, crystal, pots and pans, fresh linen, nightlamp, chests of drawers, a clock, a mirror, stairway, doors. Night everywhere, night ... things: in corners, in men s eyes, in linen, in the papers on a desk, *10* in the wormed words of stale and sterile speech, in logs ...

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Author:	Arthur Maisel
Date:	Wed Sep 25 13:32:32 PDT 2013

2 [lbo-talk] Elegy for John Donne -- rank: 734

... this properly, but here it is, translated by Kline in the Russian Review: John Donne has sunk in sleep. . .All things ... beside are sleeping too: walls, bed, and floor-all sleep. The table, pictures, carpets, hooks and bolts, clothes-closets, cupboards, candles, curtains-all now sleep: the washbowl, bottle, tumbler, bread, breadknife and china, crystal, pots and pans, fresh linen, nightlamp, chests of drawers, a clock, a mirror, stairway, doors. Night everywhere, night ... in corners, in men's eyes, 10 in linen, in the papers on a desk, in the wormed words of stale and sterile speech, in logs ...

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Author:	JOANNA A.
Date:	Mon Sep 23 23:12:03 PDT 2013

3 [lbo-talk] Elegy for John Donne -- rank: 734

... this properly, but here it is, translated by Kline in the Russian Review: John Donne has sunk in sleep. . .All things ... beside are sleeping too: walls, bed, and floor-all sleep. The table, pictures, carpets, hooks and bolts, clothes-closets, cupboards, candles, curtains-all now sleep: the washbowl, bottle, tumbler, bread, breadknife and china, crystal, pots and pans, fresh linen, nightlamp, chests of drawers, a clock, a mirror, stairway, doors. Night everywhere, night ... in corners, in men's eyes, 10 in linen, in the papers on a desk, in the wormed words of stale and sterile speech, in logs ...

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Author:	michael yates
Date:	Mon Sep 23 22:22:29 PDT 2013

4 [lbo-talk] Occupy Tax Havens - Treasure Islands - Onshore / Offshore Tax Haven Networks -- rank: 759

... starting to go under, maybe its time to get ahead of the corporations who are working to bring home their profits on some kind of tax holiday and actually go after the onshore and offshore tax haven and secrecy jurisdictions big style the money hasn't been destroyed or disappeared, its in Cayman, Switzerland, Jersey, Lichenstein, with the City of London (NOT the London Metropolitian Area) and ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Fri Dec 16 16:10:19 PST 2011

5 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 666

Somebody Somebody CB: But the European ideology of conquest based on their Greco-Roman heritage and values of conquest ( U know Alexander was Great at what ? Conqueriing, no ? Same with Caesar, Julius and Augustus both) was the historical cause of the way the Europeans responded to the population loss due ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue May 10 08:52:08 PDT 2011

6 [lbo-talk] Atlas Sucked, Redux -- rank: 327

The pseudo-trailer's just all right, but this comment is ... that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Wed May 4 15:53:03 PDT 2011

7 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 706

... at 7:38 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > So, which is the real meaning, "a voice crying in the wilderness, > prepare me the way of the lord" or "a voice crying, in the > wilderness prepare me ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Mar 25 12:11:07 PDT 2010

8 [lbo-talk] the Vatican's top 10 list -- rank: 617

<http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/02/15/the-beatles-michael-jackson-and-u2-make-vatican-newspapers-list-of-best-albums-bob-dylan-snubbed/ > The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and U2 Make Vatican Newspaper s List of Best Albums; Bob Dylan Snubbed The Beatles, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and U2 may be ... But Bob Dylan is still Knockin on Heaven s Door. The Vatican has previously denounced rock music as the devil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 18:29:49 PST 2010

9 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 703

... Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Someone, I think one of Tokien's friends, claimed the background was WW > 1. > > He himself always denied hotly that the work was allegorical. But one > passage near the end sort of confuses things. The villains back in > Hobbit-land describe their operations as " ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Fri Nov 20 19:32:13 PST 2009

10 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 398

... Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote: > He made a number of movies before that. Check out Meet the Feebles and Bad > Taste. Now that's filmmaking! I think Bad Taste was the first R-rated movie I saw as a kid thanks to someone's older brother (either that or Revenge of the Nerds). We loved it then and I haven't seen it since. I grew up in Wellington along with the Peter Jackson movies and he was probably about the ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Fri Nov 20 17:14:54 PST 2009

11 [lbo-talk] More on why movies suck -- rank: 425

... talk] More on why movies suck Anyone can see that Lord of the Rings is a Heideggero-Facistic metaphor, the They of the Orcs, the lost authenticity of the Shire, the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Nov 20 07:27:49 PST 2009

12 [lbo-talk] More on why movies suck -- rank: 425

Anyone can see that Lord of the Rings is a Heideggero-Facistic metaphor, the They of the Orcs, the lost authenticity of the Shire, the ...

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Author:	heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Date:	Fri Nov 20 06:04:57 PST 2009

13 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 364

Speaking of Peter Jackson, I saw his first movie, Dead Alive, the other day. Now that was pure genius. LotR would have been better with zombies instead of hobbits, I'll tell you that.   ----- Original Message ---- From: Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com> Also speaking of Peter Jackson, the whole "series, sequels and remakes"  complaint reveals its triteness ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Nov 20 00:04:26 PST 2009

14 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 648

... From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Gar Lipow Sent: Fri 20/11/2009 18:15 To ... 2009 at 10:31:16AM +1100, Mike Beggs wrote: > Speaking of blowing things up, auteurs, and films related to Peter > Jackson, did anyone see District 9? Definitely the best sci-fi and > action film of the year, and it was both non-Hollywood and had a lot > of things blow up. Also speaking of Peter Jackson, the ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:30:56 PST 2009

15 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 648

... 2009 at 10:31:16AM +1100, Mike Beggs wrote: > Speaking of blowing things up, auteurs, and films related to Peter > Jackson, did anyone see District 9? Definitely the best sci-fi and > action film of the year, and it was both non-Hollywood and had a lot > of things blow up. Also speaking of Peter Jackson, the whole "series, sequels and remakes" complaint ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:15:03 PST 2009