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Anecdote on relative reading metabolisms, plus poll results

In honor of various people I’ve been around recently who read at a rate I find emasculating, I give you this story: I was reading a book on my subway commute. I don’t remember which, but I’d just gotten to … Continue reading

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there’s something in my book

This was stuck in Nietzsche: I bought the book in 1997 or ’98; so this would be the Clinton-bombing war in Iraq that December, not the current incarnation. I was in high school, and I had a friend who hung … Continue reading

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