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		<title>The Unsophisticated Travel Writer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Travel broadens the mind, but first you must have the mind.”
G.K.Chesterton
Travel writers lead romantic lives. They explore the world at other people’s expense, and they don’t even need to invent their material. They simply describe the places they visit. Anybody can do that.
You know as well as I do that the above paragraph is nonsense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tourist Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island and a great traveler himself, once remarked that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. As a philosophy of life, you can scarcely argue with that, since we all know what happens when we arrive; and as a prophetic description of the tourist experience in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show and Tell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Education has produced a vast population
able to read, but unable to distinguish what
is worth reading.”
G.M.Trevelyan
One weekend I was returning from work at the radio station in Connecticut to my home in Long Island, a journey that involves a ferry ride. It was early evening and the bar on the boat was completely empty. I perched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sounds of Springtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the several things that makes April the cruelest month is that suburban homeowners take it as their cue to bring out their wretched machines.
I say &#8220;home owners,&#8221; but what I really mean is &#8220;men.&#8221; Do you see many women wielding these machines? No, and here&#8217;s why. Men have problems. Tom and Ray, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many Books?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is with books as with men: a very small
number play a great part, the rest are
lost in the multitude.”
Voltaire

There’s a character in the Peanuts cartoon strip called Pigpen – a little boy who attracts dirt like a magnet. I am a Pigpen for books. They come at me from all directions and they stick [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dieting is the curse of the modern age. Having freed ourselves from religious Puritanism, we&#8217;ve fallen prey to the far worse medical kind. No fifteenth century preacher could come up with as many &#8220;thou shalt nots&#8221; as my doctor can in a half hour visit. Just ten dietary commandments would be a relief. He has [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the season for all kinds of rotten winter viruses. Nobody is safe, and I began to wonder why. If you live in the city, it&#8217;s easy to see how these diseases get passed along, in crowded subways and elevators. But in the suburbs, where we have so much space, so little human contact, [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For writers of a certain age, the most nostalgic sound in the world is the irregular clatter of an old manual typewriter, being used by somebody who can&#8217;t type. I have a bunch of typewriters, fully-functioning antiques that provide a reassuring link to the past. My favorite  machine is a Royal, manufactured about 1949. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Room of One&#8217;s Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The ideal view for daily writing,
hour on hour, is the blank brick wall of a
 cold storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch
of sky will do, cloudless if possible.”
Edna Ferber
Writing should be the ultimately portable activity. The stereotype of the author, reinforced by numerous advertisements for writing courses, is of the creative spirit freed from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only the most boring questions have answers. For example, here are three of the world&#8217;s most interesting and least answerable questions, which are posed at the beginning of Douglas Adams&#8217; space odyssey, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: &#8220;Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much of [...]]]></description>
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