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		<title>&#8220;Top Girls&#8221; by Caryl Churchill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up the play &#8220;Top Girls&#8221; because two historical women who fascinate me, Isabella Bird and Lady Nijo, appear as characters.
Bird was a headstrong Victorian who wrote popular books about her travels across China, the Rockies, and beyond. Nijo fled a series of painful affairs at the Japanese court to become a traveling nun. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=1146&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doris Lessing on What to Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a wonderful passage from Doris Lessing&#8217;s 1971 introduction to The Golden Notebook.
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag &#8212; and never, never read anything because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=1133&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Artist in American Society, the Formative Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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The Artist in American Society, the Formative Years: 1790-1960 by Neil Harris. (Goerge Braziller, 1966)
The colonial painter wasn&#8217;t so much an artist as an artisan. He painted signs, crockery, fire buckets, and anything else he could to make a living.
If he were particularly ambitious, he might farm himself out to small towns like Albany, NY, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=1048&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Stiff Upper Lip, Without a Mustache</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;lady traveler&#8221; was something of a Victorian phenomenon.  She shooed hippopotami with her parasol and bicycled across India in bloomers. A painter, collector, or just a wanderer, she cherished her tea after a camel ride. (Isabella Bird drank it from a beef tin with a one-eyed outlaw named Mountain Jim.)
Back home, if she were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=1030&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Things to Know about the Mahabharata: #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[#3. The problem of violence and responsibility. To regain their kingdom, the Pandava brothers go to war.
At the close of the 18-day battle, the dead include their sons, cousins, guru, and a brother they never knew they had. Some didn&#8217;t even die a clean death. They were distracted by imitations of their son&#8217;s voices, shot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=1024&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Things to Know about the Mahabharata: #4</title>
		<link>http://moltennotebook.com/2009/09/07/ten-things-to-know-about-the-mahabharata-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[4. Caste counts. Caste has a long, complex, and politically fraught history in India. This post merely outlines a few basics that are relevant to a reading of the Mahabharata.
Humans in the epic are born into a caste that determines their status and lifestyle. Caste resembles but is not quite the same as a social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=1017&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Hit: Never Let Me Go (2003)</title>
		<link>http://moltennotebook.com/2009/09/02/quick-hit-never-let-me-go-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro captures the self-deception of men who grapple with personal responsibility amidst forces beyond their control. The perfect English butler in The Remains of the Day learns that his lord sympathizes with the Nazis. A Japanese propaganda painter fears that his wartime sympathies have damaging consequences in An Artist of the Floating World.
It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=1013&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solaris (1972)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Tarkovsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solaris is, on the one hand, quite strange. On the other, it&#8217;s not strange enough.
The 1972 Soviet film by Andrei Tarkovsky follows a psychologist named Kris Kelvin to the planet of Solaris, which is covered by a vast, intelligent ocean. It&#8217;s this intelligence that responded when scientists blasted it with radioactive waves some years earlier. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=995&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in America: A First Look</title>
		<link>http://moltennotebook.com/2009/08/20/democracy-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m experimenting with quick, mid-reading posts.
Alexis de Tocqueville was just 26 when he and a coworker visited America to study its prison system. His quest, as it turns out, was far broader: to understand democracy in America as a case study for what he expected to happen in France and beyond.
What surprises me most about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=983&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Women, Desperately Wanting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[women in literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever happened to those stories of bored, beautiful women who threw themselves under trains or into the river, took arsenic or simply expired from the weight of sin? Strangled by frustrated ambition, they were, and raw emotion that couldn&#8217;t be hammered into the fine tracery of polite talk.
They were so common once. You couldn&#8217;t open [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moltennotebook.com&blog=3640611&post=968&subd=asianclassicsproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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