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		<title>dreamlessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a blogalectic This place of which you say ‘It is a waste’ There shall be heard again the voice Of mirth, and the voice of gladness There’s not much moon tonight. So Masha has given us this question: Moonlight is dangerous, but beautiful, essential for artistic dreamings, which is why, this week, in the darkness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=932&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Novelist is Mad]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://mrpond47.wordpress.com/?p=919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After some serious pondering, I decided that the reason my wonderful blogs are never featured on the WordPress Freshly Pressed page is that I never have pictures up here anymore. So, for my 301st post at Paradoxes, here is a picture of a happy cookie: That should do it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=919&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the delusion of day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Story]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nabokov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subcreation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blogalectic What is a world, and how is it made? Or to put it another way, in Tom Waits’s immortal words, ‘Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?’ We might be inclined to wonder that if Waits doesn’t know the answer to that, who does? Nabokov, apparently, confirming my general suspicions. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=915&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>katabasis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fairytales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fairies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://mrpond47.wordpress.com/?p=911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[a new blogalectic with Masha and Jenna St. Hilaire, or a poem without words When you go to bed, don&#8217;t leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead. Masha gives us the words of Rilke today, together with a reminder that many people avoid myth, and magic, and fantasy because of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=911&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on not liking schlock</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Films]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In blogalectic with Jenna and Masha Happy New Year, good readers. This year begins with something different. Jenna has graciously injected a line of fervour into the discussion, taking on the large and sticky question of church music, specifically “the failure of many Christian recording artists to realize that music itself actually means something, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=908&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>fleeting things</title>
		<link>http://mrpond47.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/fleeting-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In blogalectic with Jenna and Masha It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m drafting a poem, and thinking about this week’s blogaletic topic of silence and ritual. If I had to say, on a normal day, what my writing rituals look like, it would involve coffee and nice pens and music. Sitting across from the Christmas tree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=906&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Pond in Print</title>
		<link>http://mrpond47.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/mr-pond-in-print-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m very happy to be able to tell you all that Scheherezade’s Bequest 14 is now online, the ill-fated unlucky number issue, one issue late. It seems to be themed around magical helpers and hindrances, and I personally am very excited to read it. And I’m equally happy to tell you that it happens to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=902&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>silent winter</title>
		<link>http://mrpond47.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/silent-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://mrpond47.wordpress.com/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In blogalectic with Jenna and Masha Weary, weary is the world, But here the world’s desire. Jenna is right when she says that the road into silence is different for every traveller. So maybe that’s why the road she thinks of looks so different from mine—not strange, though. Because my road into silence meant recognising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=899&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>sacred time and fairy lights</title>
		<link>http://mrpond47.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/sacred-time-and-fairy-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In blogalectic with Jenna and Masha It’s a cold night, a restless and windy night in St Andrews, heavy with the despondent dark of early winter. And I see that Jenna has blogged about “murderous fairies.” A pleasant topic in sunny old Washington, perhaps, but here—not far from the cathedral ruins and the endless, rolling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=896&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on the art of blogging</title>
		<link>http://mrpond47.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/on-the-art-of-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Pond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[not in blogalectic with anyone, really Established bloggers seem to say and do things that less experienced bloggers never do. They say, for instance, that they have grown weary of hearing their own voice and tired of saying important sounding things. And, rather than studiously keeping content flowing across their sites, they tend to blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrpond47.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9956818&amp;post=893&amp;subd=mrpond47&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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