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		<title>All the Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I like to stand outside in the winter night, a glass of gin in my hand, and watch the sky go by above me, half moon a white lemon with its companion star, the star two stars, then one if I concentrate while the clouds veil and unveil it all, and my focus shifts between [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ten Reasons to Pay It Forward</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[To pay it forward means that instead of paying someone back for a good deed, you do a good deed for someone else. Maybe you&#8217;ll surrender your first-place position in a long line at the 7-Eleven when someone behind you is in a hurry. On a rainy day, you might hand an umbrella to someone [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The simplest definition of “sacred” in the Oxford English Dictionary has always seemed to me to be “set apart,” and that’s probably why I’ve never felt very happy with the word. I’ve never much liked the idea of things being “set apart.” Somehow, in my staunchly Republican family, I acquired a stubborn egalitarianism. But I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Enigmas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[a featured contributor]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[You have asked me what the lobster weaves between its golden claws, and I respond to you: The sea knows. You say to me,&#160;“What is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent bell? What is it waiting for?&#8221; I say to you, it waits as you do for time. You ask me whom the embrace [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ten Reasons to Enjoy Shakespeare&#8217;s Works</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 03:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In&#160;Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom argues that Shakespeare did more than just shape the structure and content of the English language—he created human nature as we understand it today. As James Shapiro explains,&#160;&#8220;Shakespeare remains so popular and his most memorable characters feel so real because through them Shakespeare invented something that hadn&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1700s, natural phenomena were so poorly understood in the American Colonies that lightning was considered by many to be an indicator of God’s wrath. Accordingly, if lightning struck a house and caused a fire, neighbors often let the home burn to the ground because they figured this was God’s intention. Then in 1753 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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