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- xw posted on 08/31/2006'On Photography' Reviewed by WILLIAM H. GASS Published: December 18, 1977 ON PHOTOGRAPHY By Susan Sontag Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable, the anonymous narrator of one of Borges's apocalyptic tales tells us, because they multiply and disseminate an already illusory universe; and if this opinion is, as seems likely, surely true, then what of the most promiscuous and sensually primitive of all our gadgets -- the camera -- which copulates with the world merely by widening its eye, and t
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- ZT posted on 08/30/2006Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz dies By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt - Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94. Mahfouz, who was accused of blasphemy by an Islamic militant and survived a stabbing attack 12 years ago, was admitted to the hospital last month after falling in his home an
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- Susan posted on 08/29/2006Theogony reading notes Introduction: Theogony is a Greek poem that explains the beginning of the universe and the origins of Gods in Greek mythology. ***. I just learned the origins of the terms Hellenic and Hellenistic. Greeks consider themselves descendents of Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, who repopulated the earth by throwing rocks after the great flood. Deucalion in turn is the son of the famous hero Prometheus, who brought fire to mankind. ***- Remember the painting
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- Blue River posted on 08/29/2006An article from New Yorker. One of the authors (Sylvia Nasar) also wrote "A Beautiful Mind". MANIFOLD DESTINY by SYLVIA NASAR AND DAVID GRUBER A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it. Issue of 2006-08-28 Posted 2006-08-21 On the evening of June 20th, several hundred physicists, including a Nobel laureate, assembled in an auditorium at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing for a lecture by the Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau. In the late nineteen-seventies, when Yau was in his t
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