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		<title>I&#8217;ve discovered&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/ive-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[that I like Raymond Williams. I&#8217;ve been reading his The Country and the City (my Gothic paper considers how Renaissance pastoral in visual art haunts Victorian London, and the circulation of Pre-Raphelite art and women). I can&#8217;t put it down.  He&#8217;s got great narrative, that Williams.  All theorists/literary critics should include tales from their British [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1284&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>G[r]adding about.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[It took me several minutes to decide how to write that title.]
Sometimes I look at my statistics here at The Blotted Line and think &#8220;why, for the love of Ben, does anyone continue to visit this site?&#8221; Alright, I seem to have tapped into that exclusive Jonson-Middleton-Marston-Thomas Dekker demographic &#8212; and it&#8217;s nice to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1276&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>While grading papers tonight&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/while-grading-papers-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Will Shakespeare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself reading a very casual description of Henry V&#8217;s sex life [i]. Well, the paper was on 3.4, and Queen Catherine&#8217;s English lesson, in which she observes the similarities between the English &#8220;foot&#8221; and &#8220;gown&#8221; and the French &#8220;foutre&#8221; and &#8220;con&#8221;. (I&#8217;m trying to avoid spam: go look them up in your Shakespeare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1271&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now I just have to write the thing.</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/now-i-just-have-to-write-the-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daughterofben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least it&#8217;s a very official-looking proposal. (And I finished well before midnight: if I can continue in this way I&#8217;ll be a very happy grad student).
11 November 2009 ~ Hamilton
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		<title>Some thoughts on picketing.</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/some-thoughts-on-picketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picketing is not fun.  Few people, I think, wake up at six in the morning thinking &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to be out on that picket line!&#8221;  Picketing (in November, in Southern Ontario) is cold and exhausting (yesterday it hailed on the 11.30-3.30 shift).
Picketing is festive however: it&#8217;s disruptive, but controlled disruption.  There are codes of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1251&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Erin&#8217;s guide to good MAing.</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/erins-guide-to-good-maing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daughterofben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I found myself feeling fairly guilty at the way I behaved in my Victorian Gothic class.  The presenter invoked some theory in which I&#8217;m particularly interested right now: psychoanalysis.  While the secondary readings for the discussion were psychoanalytic texts (an article comparing the economic structures of Victorian banking and mental illness ala Freud, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1242&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Making a mess of things: what Celia does to my apartment.</media:title>
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		<title>To the Jorys, at the birth of their first child.</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/to-the-jorys-at-the-birth-of-their-first-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daughterofben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, what pleasure do you take
To hear the nurse discovery make,
How the nose, the lip, the eye,
The forehead full of majesty,
Shews the father, how to this
The mother&#8217;s beauty added is;
And after all with gentle numbers,
To woo the infant into slumbers.
And these delights he yields you now,
The swathe and cradle this doth show;
But hereafter, when his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1238&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the event that anyone is remotely interested&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/in-the-event-that-anyone-is-remotely-interested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[in the sorts of small assignments/weekly preparation I do for class, here is the Spenser position I posted for this week&#8217;s discussion (I feel better posting it now the class is finished for the week)
Stephen Orgel argues concerning court masques:
In a theater employing perspective, there is only one focal point, one perfect place in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1240&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celia in the fridge.</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/celia-in-the-fridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And this is how Celia makes cooking take twice as long as it should.
2 November 2009 ~ Hamilton
(Also, I apologise for the dissemination of kitten photos, that are entirely frivolous and non-literary.)

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			<media:title type="html">The fridge is her Everest.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The crisper proves a challenge.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Considering another shelf.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">This shelf has the meat.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Alas! Said meat is inaccessible.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Disgusted with the lack of available food, Celia leaves the fridge.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">By the way, this is what she is usually seeking.</media:title>
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		<title>Preparation time.</title>
		<link>http://daughterofben.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/preparation-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I stood at the kitchen counter, knife in hand, finally confronting the pumpkin that had sat on my table for the better part of the last week.  I found myself weirdly appreciative of my mother for teaching me how to cook.  The pumpkin is, after all, one of the weirder-looking vegetables, and, if one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daughterofben.wordpress.com&blog=3291912&post=1202&subd=daughterofben&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Pumpkin pie: always looks funny not made with sugar, but it tastes the same (the crust is pleasantly like a non-sweet shortbread).</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Dill and cucumber salad.  Needs more dill.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Squash and wild rice soup. Goes well with spicy white wine.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Penne, spinich, and portabello casserole (the best of the four dishes today).</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Soy-roasted pumpkin seeds.</media:title>
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