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I Am John by Emil Svanängen.

What did the pope say? Ask gawker.

Darfur.

Keeping cool and waiting for strange things to leap out of a seething sea.

The real deal. A Romantic or more appropriately Anarcho-Environmentalist in India. A review of his Manifesto. I read some chapters. The prose is not eloquent but the points are.

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