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		<title>Discussion Papers on Contemporary Philosophy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fidelity to the matter and method of phenomenology On Heidegger and the Paradox of Human Decision and an essay on Vattimo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1751&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us think again of being young, This time, if it can be said at all, Without time bothering us. It’s useless if we have our timepieces Tick-a-tocking a juju we knew best, The sound of a creaking bed. For once in the life of a leaf a stem Has no purpose but an aid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1721&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prelim to A Therapy Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donnie Darko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life and Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the face of the sun when it’s aging? It is like asking a tree to die. And die without Leaving a trace of sorrow. A tree that doesn’t show A face, or because its lack of face beats any sorrow. Pity the living that shows so much face. I don’t expect you to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1719&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mantra of the Apolitical: On Zizek and &#8216;Ramona&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Slavoj Zizek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zizek’s mantra of the apolitical For all his credentials as a theorist of social change Slavoj Zizeks’ uncanny take on the real culprit behind the capitalist debacle on managing a deepening crisis of global economy is like crapping out a game we thought he knew how to play and play better. In his usual display [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1677&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Counting the Planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7 billion people]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least I heard two people, all of them female, with the exception of the male taxi driver who provoked a short conversation on population numbers while we were entering one of the adjacent streets leading to North Cemetery, had managed to drop a comment on the latest world population figures complemented by the unusual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1675&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Hermione and a wannabe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This thoughtless anoesis of yours can very well Disambiguate A history of fiction— A relapse Into sickness by any means—even Nietzsche Would balk at if he were alive: How he hates that recipe for ruin, this self-transparency! Your tasteless Manichean twofold. Ah! That cunning confession of poverty Behind which a desire of yours slinks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1633&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past months had been too pointless for Godot and whatever in Beckett this thing is named it is certainly useless. Useless for everything it stands for beyond the culpability of language. What then is a juju? With magical powers it is thought to possess a juju can fire a gun even if God is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1607&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the times of Kafka and Jesenská</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filipino Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Just for now, let’s set off into a time When just about everything was old. Old enough to recall if It was a time In a pipe dream of tourists Thinking They were spiders. Was it like you once told me? Was it credible enough To tell someone his age? Was it just a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1587&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Kafka a place called shore?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life and Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(To Eve Ensler) How to fill you? That bothers my pen. If only you were the darkness I crave. Your parity can make all truths simmer Before they boil, Before Nietzsche’s eyes Turn bleary From everything that sizzles. This tickles your fancy. Must be your teddy Guarding the gaffe That’s called your unspoiled state? How [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1551&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kafka&#8217; and the weight of lingering sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>virgilio rivas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN Avenue Encore &#8220;That evening everyone was gripped by the traffic of clouds above. By the book, this happens every time an angel arrives&#8230;&#8221;   How is it that she’s not sure if the sands are dry? Do they ever get dry? Do they ever want to speak of oceans? Of angels darting above the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veraqivas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=278762&amp;post=1547&amp;subd=veraqivas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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