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		<title>Jason Bourne and identity — who am I?</title>
		<link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/05/30/jason-bourne-and-identity-who-am-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who are you? Are you the sum of your experiences, your actions, your memories? Are you your dreams, your plans, your aspirations, the person you&#8217;ll someday become? Are you your past, or your destiny or your present? The best films in any genre are always the ones that touch on essential human questions. What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Dragstrip ~ Zen and the Art of Observation at any Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1974, Robert M. Pirsig published Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an extraordinary book about an extraordinary journey. The bit about touring around the U.S.A. on a motorcyle is good too. This book captivated me in my early 20s. The mystical philosophy of &#8216;goodness&#8217; Pirsig explores fascinates me. It&#8217;s not a perfect book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Kill a Mockingbird: the courage of Atticus Finch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Harper Lee&#8217;s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I&#8217;ve got the film paused, just after the scene in which the verdict is handed down. Guilty. Both the film and the book resonate very deeply with me, in all the themes they touch upon. Family, community, love, goodness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes and notes regarding Gregory David Roberts&#8217; Shantaram</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare. &#160;&#160;&#160;~ Gregory David Roberts &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;from Shantaram I love this passage from the spectacularly enthralling &#8220;Shantaram.&#8221; Nonetheless, I disagree with it. When the wish and the fear are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Gabriel &amp; Ken Follet: Fear, the mother of violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I was reading Ken Follet&#8217;s The Pillars of the Earth. Set amidst the brutality of the English middle ages, it&#8217;s interesting to see how all Follet&#8217;s characters experience fear, and more interesting how they respond to it and how, oftentimes, they are controlled by it, particularly the most violent of them, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butterflies: Hope for the caterpillars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we&#8217;re still fresh with images of butterflies&#8230; &#8216;How does one become a butterfly?&#8217; she asked pensively. &#8216;You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.&#8217; ~ Trina Paulus, from Hope for the Flowers]]></description>
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		<title>The Butterfly through the eyes of Zorba the Greek</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Butterfly I remember one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the back of a tree just as a butterfly was making a hole in its case and preparing to come out. I waited awhile, but it was too long appearing and I was impatient. I bent over it and breathed on it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fugitive Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the film adaptation of Anne Michaels&#8217; novel, Fugitive Pieces today. One of the most achingly beautiful love scenes I&#8217;ve ever seen is followed, closely, by Michaela picking up Jakob&#8217;s journal, holding it, looking at it, quizzically, curiously. she seems to be asking of it, &#8220;what else might you reveal of the man I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty, Cathedrals, Purpose: The Pillars of the Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/01/28/beauty-cathedrals-purpose-the-pillars-of-the-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t very far into Ken Follet&#8217;s, The Pillars of the Earth before I understood what might be enthralling the people who&#8217;ve been telling me I should read it. “Because it will be beautiful,” Tom the Builder answered Prior Philip. By beautiful Tom didn&#8217;t mean simply pretty, or artful. He meant that upon seeing it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contact: When science learns faith…</title>
		<link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/01/27/contact-when-science-learns-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following is some dialog from the film Contact, a film adaptation of Carl Sagan&#8217;s sci-fi novel of the same name. I had&#8230; an experience. I can&#8217;t prove it. I can&#8217;t even explain it. All I can tell you is that everything I know as a human being, everything I am &#8212; tells me that it [...]]]></description>
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