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		<title>Imagining the Death of Nalagiri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once a queen, who though possessing great beauty or perhaps because of it, desired the rare things of the world.  One night in her castle of gray stones and parallel lines she dreamt of a magnificent elephant with glowing eyes. Her dream elephant strolled calmly and quietly through jade forests, moving trees gently to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wide Night Skies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Wherein we try to quote Erich Marie Remarque from memory, for nights when such words will be needed):
A clear voice utters words that bring me peace, to me, in big boots, belt, and knapsack, taking the road that lies before me under the high heaven, quickly forgetting and seldom sorrowful, for ever pressing on under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers</title>
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The morning after the storm is just for returning north along the coast, but the next exit is east to Ojai and I remember I have someone else to thank. Coleus from the farmers&#8217; market makes a small gift.
I&#8217;ve never been here, but do know this has been his home for more than fifty years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garrett Lisi and E8: &#8220;The universe is maximally beautiful.&#8221;

Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham

Don Knuth: importunate permutation

The wonderful Cliff Stoll presents a Steiger Millionaire challenge; always offering me Acme Klein Bottles and his peculiar brand of crystal ball.

Enigma

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		<link>http://quexotic.org/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Integers in Euclidean Space Order</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider the factored integers N=[(0), (1), (2), (3), (2,2), 5, (2,3), 7, (2,2,2)...], with each factor representing a point in Euclidean space. Each of these points is at a distance d from the origin, and can be ordered by d.

-- Ieso.hs
-- Integers in Euclidean space order

-- Uses the Haskell Number Theory functions, from the "Haskell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who hath desired the Sea?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who hath desired the Sea? &#8212; the sight of salt water unbounded &#8211;
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?
The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growing &#8211;
Who hath desired the Sea? &#8212; the immense and contemptuous surges?
The shudder, the stumble, the swerve, as the star-stabbing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black and White</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It can get bitter on these heights, and the winds, how they blow. There has been many a roaring night Hector and I have thought we would perish on this Hill, but, of course, how could we? What comfort is the hearth fire without raw weather howling outside the door, and what pleasure is there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garrison, and Crystal Peak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Old journal entries, May 21, 2003, West Desert, Utah
Cottonwood, graves, and light.
The raw native sandstone, faintly inscribed.
Granite black, etched roses. Ruby Young Fowler, May 6, 1891 &#8211; April 1, 1918, &#8220;Beloved Mother&#8221;. 
Dove in sandstone. &#8220;In memory of Mary E. Young&#8221;, born Dec 30, 1871, died Dec 17th 1880, &#8220;&#8230;farewell my dear&#8230;no longer must I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relief for Taiwan, China, Phillipines</title>
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Click here to donate to relief efforts in areas hit hard by Typhoon Morakot.
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		<link>http://quexotic.org/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Che, Quoting Freud, Quoting Dschelaladin Rumi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There, where love awakens, dies the I, dark despot.
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