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		<title>How to justify the state of my shed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector&#8217;s passion borders on the chaos of memories. More than that: the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books. For what else is this collection but a disorder to which habit has accommodated itself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=195&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Cook</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cook by Wayne Macauley My rating: 4 of 5 stars So Wayne Macauley, a satirist worth his salt, has been round for a while. Good ole’ Black Pepper Press took a punt on his skewered cheese-dreams of Australian aspiration. Not just suburban oiks, the obvious target, but those artistes applying for the wafer-thin dinner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=191&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heat by Bill Buford My rating: 4 of 5 stars Most food writing is shit. It wallows in superlatives as brazenly as real estate hustings. But really good writing about food makes the heart soar. This is in the second category. Partially because Buford is so craven, so desperate to GET what it is like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=188&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Varuna Part I &#8211; Walking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tortoiseshell twitching its ears at me from a tower window. Germans climb over the railing to have their picture taken, backs to the void. “You know, you really need to grow up,” says the girl taking the picture. The movement of the cable counterweight against the trees, a shuttle through the loom of canopy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=182&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Why I Can Deal with the Shame of my Bookcase</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 10:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Nassim Taleb&#8217;s Black Swan, on Umberto Eco&#8217;s library: The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encylopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=174&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 00:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey My rating: 5 of 5 stars Reading Peter Carey is always a gamble. The bower-bird nature of his source material, where his current obsessions &#8211; often an aspect of the creative life &#8211; is unpicked to the point of immersion, sometimes comes off and sometimes doesn&#8217;t. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=170&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I grow old, I grow old; I would probably still eat a Chiko Roll</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a picture of the last three months worth of ear-fruit from my local opshops. Bitchin&#8217;, no? &#160; Music is a relatively recent rekindled love in my life. Having small children and cranking my music of choice has presented some difficulties in my thin-walled cottage. Sure, they like Underworld and James Brown but only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=164&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He knows when you are sleeping&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Commentary, Self-indulgence Tagged: santa letter<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=161&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review &#8211; The Light of Common Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light of Common Day by Diana Cooper My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is such a strange, unworldly gem of a thing. Diana Manners is living proof that the English upper class might have been odd, chinless and wretched but they were also clever, generous, observant and brave. Manners was one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=156&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review &#8211; The Silver Crown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Silver Crown by Robert C. O&#8217;Brien My rating: 3 of 5 stars Vivid memories of the effect this book had on me when my teacher Mrs Leish read this to us in grade four &#8211; and finding the edition I had then, a photo-realist painting of Ellen wearing the silver crown itself, her blue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoralhighground.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8017603&amp;post=154&amp;subd=themoralhighground&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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