Category Archives: Books

Girl, Wanted: The Chase For Sarah Pender, Steve Miller, Berkley, $7.99.

Posted on July 26, 2011 by ubu507

  The femme fatale is a stock figure in our culture, enough of a cliche that a culture luminary like Britney Spears pasted the phrase on her latest piece of product. Some feminist scholars maintain that the concept itself is … Continue reading →

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An Old Borders

Posted on July 25, 2011 by ubu507
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From “The Annals”

Posted on July 7, 2011 by ubu507

But neither human help, nor imperial munificence, nor all the modes of placating Heaven, could stifle scandal or dispel the belief that the fire had taken place by order. Therefore to scotch the rumor, Nero substituted as culprits, and punished … Continue reading →

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I think this author was supposed to be at

Posted on June 27, 2011 by ubu507

The Ann Arbor Book Festival but cancelled

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1972

Posted on June 23, 2011 by ubu507

What is the true nature of female sexuality? The noted psychiatrist Mary Jane Sherfey suggests the startling possibility that female sexuality is literally an insatiable physical drive that has been powerfully repressed for the sake of orderly human relations.   … Continue reading →

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Kurt Vonnegut

Posted on June 16, 2011 by ubu507

looks different without all that hair

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To Maineville with love

Posted on June 10, 2011 by ubu507

Shipped this one out to Maineville, OH today….

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from Shinto: The Kami Way

Posted on May 25, 2011 by ubu507

In Shinto there is no absolute deity that is the creator and ruler of all. The creative function of the world is realized through the harmonious cooperation of the Kami in the performance of their respective missions. Among the objects … Continue reading →

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More Bewitched by J. Barbey D’Aurevilly

Posted on May 20, 2011 by ubu507

The young girl in her with her blushing timidities veiled the Amazon. Nature had made this girl of the people in the vast and shining mold of the great coquettes, not of those who snare imbecile imaginations with the bird … Continue reading →

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My New favorite Poet

Posted on May 19, 2011 by ubu507
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