Remains of the Day
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Ishiguro, Fukuyama, Kawasaki and Murakami. I read Ishiguro in bed, watched Fukuyama on Charlie Rose, watch Kawasaki interview on his latest book Enchantment and dream on with characters in Murukami’s novels. Multi-media tutors. They might look Asian, but speak and write perfect English. Best of both worlds. Like Singapore or Hongkong. Ishiguro penned beautiful prose and plot, that…
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14 Vietnamese women were found and freed from Baby101, a Taiwanese outfit operated outside of the law in Thailand. They were paid to be surrogate mothers (artificial insemination or otherwise), whose future babies would be put up for adoption. Baby, never let me go. Newsweek has a piece about anonymousUS.org, an organization which seeks to organize…
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Mark your calendar. Summer 2010 will be a bookend event. It will be Gutenberg-like. It’s the beginning of the disappearance of Revised Print Edition. It’s Google e-book store, where you can download the latest version of any book. Gone are the paper backs. Or Large Print for that matter. Select your own font. http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/49631-google-plans-summer-opening-for-e-book-store Our…
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