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		<title>Bildungsroman, Kunstlerroman, and The Age of The New Wave</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bildungsroman, Kunstlerroman, and The Age of The New Wave (March 14, 2007, from my old friendster blog: http://xn3ct.blog.friendster.com/2007/03/bildungsroman-kunstlerroman-and-the-age-of-the-new-wave/ ) Yesterday, I got to watch &#8220;Live Aid&#8221; (July 13, 1985). Brought me back to my growing up years… I saw Sting performing with some saxophonist named Marsalis (probably the brother of Wynton Marsalis, a trumpeteer who came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to Sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[jan. 11, 2006 &#62; hi sands, &#62; that was macbeth himself who said that (&#8220;out, out brief candle&#8230;&#8221;) in his monologue, after learning of lady macbeth&#8217;s death (&#8220;tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow/ creeps in this petty pace from day to day&#8230;&#8221;). you were thinking about lady macbeth&#8217;s other monologue with the &#8220;out, out damned spot&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Umberto Eco, Dan Brown, Signs and Symbols</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown&#8217;s devices are rather stilted&#8230; contrived&#8230; Although I laughed at that scene when Brown was thinking of some woman in the past and then the police driver who fetched him asks: &#8220;Did you mount her?&#8221; The Eiffel, of course&#8230; harharhar! One particular scene that I loved (not for any &#8220;high&#8221;/literary reasons but for the seeming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still on Dan Brown&#8217;s Recuperation of the Sacred Feminine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural symbols have some kind of consistency. And rightly or wrongly (I mean, one could always present arguments that would show the inappropriateness of a symbol or sets of symbols), the associations have been formed and set through the millenia. One cannot simply do away with a symbol that has been passed and accepted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Deliberately Ignoring Something Because of the Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved the Matrix and Moulin Rouge, despite their being hyped. On the other hand, I did watch Lord of the Rings 1 &#38; 2, but stayed away from 3. Tried reading book 1, but just managed a few paragraphs, and then stopped&#8230; (Well, perhaps someday&#8230;) Did &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221; have that much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Matter! (On the Da Vinci Code, Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum &amp; Other Matters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; in 2005, after deliberately ignoring it for quite some time because of the hype. And then saw the movie later. Well, the wealth of information (esp. regarding symbols) is generally sound. But it doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to the erudition of Umberto Eco&#8217;s &#8220;Foucalt&#8217;s Pendulum.&#8221; (I have yet to understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because I Cannot Sleep by Rumi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by Rumi: Because I Cannot Sleep Because I cannot sleep I make music at night. I am troubled by the one whose face has the color of spring flowers. I have neither sleep nor patience, neither a good reputation nor disgrace. A thousand robes of wisdom are gone. All my good manners have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ano nga ba ang Isang Tula (What is a Poem?) by Miguel Hernandez</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ano nga ba ang isang tula? Isang marikit na kasinungalingang binihisan. Isang katotohanang ipinararamdam lamang. Tanging sa pagpaparamdam lamang nito hindi nagiging kasinungalingan ang katotohanan. Isang katotohanang &#8216;singhalaga at &#8216;sintago ng miniminang yaman. Sino nga ba ang nakakakita na, sa katotohanan, kulay-asin ang dagat? Walang sinuman. Gayunpaman, nagpaparanas ito, wumawagayway, ipinapakita at sinasalamin ng mga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lover&#8217;s Passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Jeanette Winterson! It&#8217;s true, and every lover knows this deep in his/her heart to be true: when one loves, one becomes a stalker of sorts&#8230; With the regretful sigh and the little blush of a lover, ian &#8212; The Lover&#8217;s Passion by Rumi A lover knows only humility He has no choice He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpt from &#8220;It&#8217;s Here Now: Are You?&#8221; by Bhagavan Das</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;It&#8217;s Here Now: Are You?&#8221; by Bhagavan Das, pp.82-83: The spiritual path gives you a choice to use your power for either good or evil. Many are tempted to use it for evil &#8212; that&#8217;s human nature. We must overcome this temptation. This is why the spiritual life is called the razor&#8217;s edge. The [...]]]></description>
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