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The Lincoln Building, where I work, is very cool. So is Grand Central. Both of them exude the old, grandiose, prosperous, ambitious, American way. The Lincoln Building has six elevators for every nine floors (forgot to check how many floors there are in total). But that means I never have to wait for more than literally 10 seconds for the elevator. No joke. There's also the old mail-drop tube on

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Wow, I actually can say that I'm still getting used to be in an English speaking environment again. I miss French. I like the mixed familiarity with the language (catching a word here and there or understanding some simple phrases) and the total incomprehension that occurs most of the time. Same with Japanese, at which I'm becoming only worse and worse...It's hard to keep up!English now at least

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This is something I want to share with my logophilia friend, Sarah B, who I hope visits this humble virtual abode once in a while.Have you ever come across words that are just so brilliant, that you force yourself to commit them to memory and get anxious when you seem unable to find the occasion to use them?*********I would like to be foursquare, but if I can really be crazy once I'd like to take

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So I arrived at Seoul two days ago. What does it feel to be in a familiar and strange place?The language is new to me, although it resembles Chinese in some cases by pronunciation, which I had to listen carefully. The characters are completely foreign. But the chain franchise, especially American, is everywhere touting its English signs and familiar logos and colors.People look no different from

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"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."I'm obsessed with this.I love Edward Norton's character. Besides the look and the intelligence, the constant struggle with the life which society had held his hand to

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Ok. I think I should start putting images in my blog. I know we are all literary and able to read forward, backward, upside down, while playing Grand Theft Auto, watching the compilation of best movie sex scenes, and eating Indian food with our hands, all at the same time. But we all have lazy eyes. Visuals are easy for us to absorb. I mean, there's a reason why we have "eye candy" but not "word

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..quoting.I have a book of quotes that I purchased when I was in middle school. It was not for class- it was for pleasure. The existence of those ambrosial lines for the taste of the mind is just the best gift of humanity in this world. At least, unlike scientific advancement, they do not cause environmental problems and climate change.Some writers are just so quotable. They really waste no

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It has been harder to breathe.It has been harder to wake up in the morning, to drag myself out of bed,to heat that oatmeal, to walk to the bus stop, to trek to class.It has been harder to turn on that computer, to open another book, to read another article,to speak coherent sentences, to think with rationality, to evoke happy thoughts.It has been harder to respond to people, to care for others,

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You know all the insecurities you feel, all the existential questions that seem unanswerable in your lifetime,all the confusion trapping you in a sheath...I think I found something I can temporarily settle for."One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourselfout. Be as I am- a reluctant enthusiast... a part timecrusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other halfof yourselves and your lives

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