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		<title>Too Loud A Solitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia Xiaorui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raining, gloomy day, too messy to go anywhere so spent the whole day reading Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, it&#8217;s maybe the first time that I finished the same book in Chinese and English within one day, and wish I could learn Czech the language in an eye to read the original&#8230; Using Hrabal&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kappa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia Xiaorui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kappa Senoo is a renowned and awarded Japanese theatrical designer, alternative artists and travel writer, and the ultimate Kappa. Kappa (河童, &#8220;river-child&#8221;) is the legendary water sprite in Japanese folklore. With the size of a child, scales on the back, webbed hands and feet, the Kappa lives in the river and is seen as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Girl at the Window</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Totto-chan was kicked out of school from the first grade as she didn&#8217;t follow rules and asked too many questions. Being informed by the expulsion, Totto-chan&#8217;s mother took her to Tomoe school. The school-head told her to say whatever she wanted to tell him and listened to her talking for four hours, then Totoo-chan started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ever Tell Anybody Anything</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia Xiaorui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. This is the last sentence of the book. Jerome David Salinger died, He said human&#8217;s natural life span is 120, and he could live to 140 years old. Now he died. The Catcher in the Rye was the first book I read in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Letters to a Young Artist as an Artist Wanted to Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia Xiaorui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still hard to figure out the whole afternoon spent at ICP&#8217;s organized yet stuffed bookstore was an adventure or a trip to the wonderland of visual art, or perhaps it was more a feast even a fiesta of inspiration to eyes and mind? Yet the best find was a pocket-sized book Letters to a Young [...]]]></description>
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