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	<title>All Work &#38; No Play</title>
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		<title>Travesty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please read the definition of &#8220;travesty,&#8221; and stop misusing it. This goes especially for the &#8220;journalists&#8221; on TV news shows. I try not to get too snooty about words, but this one is just annoying.
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		<title>Update: 10000 Words, and Some Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing a book, which is part of the reason I have not updated this blog in so long. My goal has been to write an average of a thousand words a day. I have not met this goal. I did, however, pass the ten-thousand-word mark this morning. That&#8217;s about 40 pages, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise 14</title>
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The wheat undulates under the wind; the field appears endless in the dispersed light the sun gives off from behind the horizon&#8217;s clouds. A combine harvester moves quickly down the exact middle of the field, leaving behind a thick strip of nothing. But then the combine stops suddenly. A strong wind bends the wheat over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will write something worth reading soon.

C# Minor
Modal Stuff
Like a Student Film, Only Music

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		<title>Creating Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, I have spent a great deal of time trying to understand music &#8211; what a scale is, why certain tones sound good together and others don&#8217;t, etc. I&#8217;ll be writing about all that as soon as I get used to my new keyboard layout, but meanwhile, here is my first musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional Rail Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She smelled wretched; she had what my friend Mark had once called "a geriatric smell." I did not move from my seat, mostly because there was nowhere to move to. I felt short of breath, as I frequently do, but the woman's cloying smell was overwhelming and I could not catch my breath.]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from the first draft of a book I am writing. I am publishing it here, side notes and all, only at Pat&#8217;s insistence that he could not stand to be bored.

As I left I could see, between the tops of the brownstone canyon that was 43rd Street, the full moon peering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Not Read This Poem</title>
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One day is not enough
to see all there is to see
in one day&#8217;s worth of me.


How could I ever be so bold
to think that one day should be told
when it is only one day old?


A diary is a private place
where one can a single day face,
one&#8217;s every moment to trace.


A woman&#8217;s ear might suit me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dust Bunnies</title>
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A lonely man in a lonely room,
considering all that he looks at;
but all we can see is all that we are,
and he wonders what starts if you stop it.


The cherry-topped table, round and oblong,
makes scurrilous reference to time long gone
when every woman and every drink
was a sign to his inner swine to think
that never until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allworkandnoplay.net/33/dust-bunnies/</link>
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		<title>On the Utility of Psychoreactive Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like any substance that directly alters your brain chemistry, caffeine is a drug, and as such, it has the same essential drawback; namely, it favors some brains states over others, and is addictive. Thus, the chronic caffeine user has a limited set of mental states available to him, a set defined by the drug. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allworkandnoplay.net/32/on-the-utility-of-psychoreactive-drugs/</link>
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