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	<title>the pursuit of awesomeness // adityaanupkumar.com &#187; Books</title>
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		<title>reflections on the first man</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2009/08/08/reflections-on-the-first-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading &#8216;The First Man&#8217;, Camus&#8217; last, and unfinished work. I&#8217;ve always related most to Camus, of all the authors &#8211; with the rest, be they philosophers or linguists like Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Derrida and Sartre, or Novelists like Murakami, Mailer and Marquez, or the fantasy writers like Tolkien, Herbert and Jordan &#8211; being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eternal and ephemeral</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2009/01/16/eternal-and-ephemeral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[eternal and ephemeral, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r. &#8220;Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed But not yet weary are our feet Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;homme . révolté</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2008/12/01/lhomme-revolte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[L ’ H o m m e . R é v o l t é, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r. &#8220;In more ingenuous times, when the tyrant razed cities for his own greater glory, when the slave chained to the conqueror&#8217;s chariot was dragged through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>it wasn&#8217;t me.</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2008/11/08/it-wasnt-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[so I was browsing the Strand Book Stall website the other day, and I noticed this. Now I know I love books et al; but this seemed a *little bit* over the top!]]></description>
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		<title>on creeping death</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2008/05/30/on-creeping-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came across Lovecraft by chance; and followed a trail back to an old Metallica song. It&#8217;s always interesting to find the sources of inspiration for artists, musicians, writers, and so on. &#8220;That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.&#8221; In this case, Metallica seem to have found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on the american dream</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2008/05/20/on-the-american-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 15:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A period in Paris, just after the war brought Bellow in touch with existentialism and post-war American writing is the subject of some ironic reflections in a famous essay Bellow published in 1963, &#8220;Some Thoughts on Recent American Fiction&#8221;. (The piece was written just as he was about to publish Herzog.) Here he reflects on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>t h e . r o a d . g o e s . e v e r . o n</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2008/05/07/t-h-e-r-o-a-d-g-o-e-s-e-v-e-r-o-n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[t h e . r o a d . g o e s . e v e r . o n Originally uploaded by sesquipedalophobic &#34;Still round the corner there may wait a new Road or a secret gate; and though I oft have passed them by, a day will come at last when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a . m o m e n t . o f . d o u b t</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2008/04/08/on-the-other-side-of-madness-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[on . the . other . side . of . madness Originally uploaded by sesquipedalophobic ‘I don’t believe in a future life,’ said Raskolnikov Svidrigailov sat lost in thought. ‘And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort?’ he said suddenly. He is a madman, thought Raskolnikov ‘We always imagine eternity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>c o n f e s s i o n s</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2008/01/10/c-o-n-f-e-s-s-i-o-n-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[c o n f e s s i o n s Originally uploaded by sesquipedalophobic &#8220;With justice definitively separated from innocence &#8212; the latter on the cross, the former in the cupboard &#8212; I have a free hand to work according to my convictions. I can in all good conscience exercise the difficult profession of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>l e . m y t h e . d e . s i s y p h e</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2007/11/04/l-e-m-y-t-h-e-d-e-s-i-s-y-p-h-e/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[l e . m y t h e . d e . s i s y p h e Originally uploaded by sesquipedalophobic &#8220;If this myth is tragic, that is because its hero is conscious. Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? The workman of today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>c o n v e r s a t i o n s . i n . t h e . m i s t</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2007/09/05/c-o-n-v-e-r-s-a-t-i-o-n-s-i-n-t-h-e-m-i-s-t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[c o n v e r s a t i o n s . i n . t h e . m i s t Originally uploaded by sesquipedalophobic Catherine: “Why commit Evil?” Gtz: “Because Good has already been done.” Catherine: “Who has done it?” Gtz: “God the Father. I, on the other hand, am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheel of Time and stuff&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2007/08/19/wheel-of-time-and-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[been going through the Wheel of Time series again. My wishlist for A Memory of Light basically goes *please balefire Padan Fain + the Dagger*]]></description>
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		<title>interesting thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2006/09/26/interesting-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[been reading &#8220;The Unconquerable World&#8221; by Jonathan Schnell; which is deemed to be highly rated; but the book in itself seems to raise more questions than answers (of course, I haven&#8217;t yet reached the conclusion&#8211;but I&#8217;m nearly there) it posits pacifism or rather, non-violent, popular movements as a method for positive development of humanity (in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on Arrakis</title>
		<link>http://www.adityaanupkumar.com/blog/2006/05/15/15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 22:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed on my blogstats page; that one of the Search Engine keys that sends people to this site is &#8220;meaning of arrakis&#8221; Now; having googled arrakis in the past; I&#8217;m well-aware that there are companies named arrakis and the like; but arrakis as I named it comes from the Dune series of Books; by [...]]]></description>
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