Category: History
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Subliminal Messages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ods6wqVhDkQ Every once in a while I try and find something weird having to do with my past on the internet as a lark. This is a YouTube video some young women in Prague made of a shopping trip to Ikea, using Free to Go by the Folk Implosion as a soundtrack. Their conclusion at…
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He’s got 48 pages
I recently finished reading Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which features the longest run-on sentence I’ve ever read. It takes up the entire final chapter of the novel. It is 48 pages long. In Lorrie Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs, a student at the University of Wisconsin is smitten by…