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Christopher Hitchens Dies at the Age of 62 | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Facebook yet again goes right up to the edge of sanity and jumps right over…

A few days ago, Facebook allegedly kicked famous author Salman Rushdie off of its social network, and then asked him to change his posted name to Ahmed if he wanted to return.

via Facebook tries to make Salman Rushdie change his name to Ahmed – CNN.com.

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And a great time was had by all! And thanks to everybody at the Mercantile Library

Most of our speakers are pretty good at being told how cool they are.  Not as many of our speakers have the knack of making the hundreds of people they’re introduced to in half an hour feel pretty cool themselves.  But Scott Turow did that.

via Perfect Manners « Stacked.

Currently vying for space in front of my eyes is 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I hope, before I finish it, to know how to pronounce the title properly. I wish I knew Japanese…

1Q84

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Moments after the butterfly left, Murakami came down the stairs and sat, quietly, at his dining-room table. I told him I had just seen the weirdest butterfly I had ever seen in my entire life. He took a drink from his plastic water bottle, then looked up at me. “There are many butterflies in Japan,” he said. “It is not strange to see a butterfly.”

via The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami – NYTimes.com.