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		<title>Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Website will be devoted to essays and insights related to diversity, addiction/recovery, psychological growth issues, global perspectives, the disenfranchised,  aesthetics, and cultural values. The core value streaming throughout the essays I write will be about returning to our innocence, which sometimes requires a trauma, a jolt, an invasion of the “other,” or a paradigm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Patriots, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog essay, I attempted to unravel the many complaints of the Tea Party followers. Three issues, however, seem to stick in the craw of those who believe in their heart of hearts that America is on the road to self-destruction: (1) The continuing loss of freedom because of big government and what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorrie Moore, &#8220;A Gate at the Stairs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to write a review of a novel that has significant events that cannot be revealed without destroying the tension of those events. In the same vein, Internet film reviews often caution their readers that the review contains spoiler information that gives away key plot information. If you&#8217;re writing a review of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roberto Bolaño, &#8220;By Night in Chile&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  jokingly made the comment to a friend of mine that English majors, like myself, seem to revel in literature that&#8217;s hard to get the first time round. That doesn&#8217;t mean second readings don&#8217;t enhance our understanding of a work. It&#8217;s just that we sometimes distrust our I-get-it reactions as being superficial because they&#8217;re too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Che Guevara, Hero or Villain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A biopic, a non-documentary film that dramatizes the life of a real, historical person, presents a challenge not only to film-makers but to audiences as well. Accuracy issues are always at stake when a director decides to do a dramatic narrative about a famous person, particularly about someone who carries a lot of mythological baggage. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bicycle Thief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vittoria de Sica&#8217;s classic 1947 film, The Bicycle Thief, has probably been written about more than any other film in history. At one time, film audiences considered it to be the best film ever made; unfortunately, it has slipped off the charts in recent times. I have longed maintained that films consistently use visual and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Wray, &#8220;Lowboy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insanity as a literary theme has always had an audience—those ardent peeping-Toms who love to wallow around in somebody else&#8217;s mania. And there is something about the draw of a house fire or a mangled car on the Interstate that seeps into our indifference with the power of a jackhammer. Add a paranoid schizophrenic, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Gass, Bards and Storytellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Harper&#8217;s Magazine essay, &#8220;Go Forth and Falsify,&#8221; William Gass made the comment that a &#8220;storyteller&#8217;s assignment&#8230;was to glorify the past and its daring, protect the family tree, justify male ownership of land&#8230;&#8221; among other obligations. It appeared at first glance that Gass had no aesthetic sympathy with the classic role of the [...]]]></description>
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