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Want to write a memoir? Don’t read this quote

I have loved Russian literature for most of my life. Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Sergei Dovlatov. (Gogol scares me, as do Poe and Hoffmann. Reading any of the three of them is like being pulled into the imagination of a schizophrenic.) … Continue reading

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Animal news: if you could clone one animal, which would it be?

My choice for the last animal: a ferret. Yet… The cloned ferret has a name. Elizabeth Ann. But what you really want to know is, why do I have a dim impression of ferrets? Because I’ve been watching “The Yorkshire … Continue reading

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Animal news: Of chameleons, conspiracies and Hillary Clinton

A chameleon too too small. Teeny, in fact. (There’s a photo of the little creature standing on the top of someone’s thumb.) The Guardian reports: Scientists say they have discovered a sunflower-seed-sized subspecies of chameleon that may well be the … Continue reading

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