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		<title>Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unrecorded stories of King/Charles/Buddy Bolden. Intro to Buddy Bolden &#8211; Wynton Marsalis (Septet) &#8211; Live at the Village Vanguard &#8220;This story begins with a man who&#8217;s name was Buddy Bolden. Now, he was from New Orleans, Louisiana. He plays the cornet. But since we&#8217;re telling the story, we&#8217;ll just say that he&#8217;s a trumpet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marquisrufous.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6116817&amp;post=196&amp;subd=marquisrufous&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of re-inventing ceremony, ritual and stories, from a work of great fiction. See also: A story within a story, and Medicinal fiction Ceremony, originally published in 1977, still holds truth within its words, and I strongly urge everyone to read it. From the text: p2 I will tell you something about stories, [he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marquisrufous.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6116817&amp;post=186&amp;subd=marquisrufous&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A story within a story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the origins of white people, from Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. excerpt from pages 132-138 of Ceremony Long time ago in the beginning there were no white people in this world there was nothing European. And this world might have gone on like that except for one thing: witchery. This world was already complete [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marquisrufous.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6116817&amp;post=181&amp;subd=marquisrufous&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>256 quadrograms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Combining the I Ching with the 4 Sacred Directions The Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes consists of 8 trigrams arranged one above the other to create 64 hexagrams. Each trigram is made of three lines, stacked one above the other. Each line is either solid (firm) or broken (yielding). The hexagrams are made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marquisrufous.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6116817&amp;post=168&amp;subd=marquisrufous&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s heart of darkness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timothey Findley&#8217;s Headhunter reflects how far up the river we&#8217;ve traveled. &#8220;Marlow used literature as psychotherapy. He believed in its healing powers &#8211; not because of its sentiments, but because of its complexities. No human life need ever be as knotted as Anna Karenina&#8217;s life had been &#8211; since the living had the benefit, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marquisrufous.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6116817&amp;post=140&amp;subd=marquisrufous&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medicinal Fiction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicine Between the Lines &#8220;To try to ease him a little, I start talking again. The story is not a happy one, but something in me has to tell it. There is truth in this story that Xavier needs to hear, and maybe it is best that the hears it in sleep so that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marquisrufous.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6116817&amp;post=26&amp;subd=marquisrufous&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medicine Wheel and the Cardinal Points</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Medicine Wheel ~ a First Step Almost all cultures hold the four directions as sacred, to one degree or another. In several traditions, the cardinal directions have come to be associated with elemental symbols as well as colors. European traditions have labeled the world according to the directions: the Far East, Southeast Asia, South [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marquisrufous.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6116817&amp;post=28&amp;subd=marquisrufous&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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