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Freud, Alec Guinness, John Le Carré and retaining a sense of play
Freud, from “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”: Should we not look for the first traces of imaginative activity as early as in childhood? The child’s…
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Woman 1
"...she seemed to have been briefly cleaved from the princess telephone on which one French-manicured hand has been resting since 2006."
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Get in my face, Daddy, and I'll mess it up
Title courtesy of Dusty "The American Dream" Rhodes. Text by Gordon S. Wood
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Too much college
A household of three at the U of C
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The Driving Force of History and of Velodrome Racing
Thymos, megalothymia, and insanely hard bike rides for fun
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Write As If Your Uncles Are Dead
Written April 1, 2016
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Teach Me How to Huggy
Written March 18, 2015
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These Things I Believe
These Things I Believe
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These Things I Believe

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