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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- Disneyana
- A martyr to the weed
- Prosthetica
- Trug
- The come-from-behind ambush technique
- Evolutions of mandarinese
- The Flying Saucer Working Party
- Squeal sheets
- Amuse-gueule
- Faded?
- "I'm really rather lumbered with the library"
- Organ recitals
- 2,000 words a day
- A daily task
- "I don't think he let anybody in the shed"
- Gone but not forgotten
- The truth versus the facts
- Man-of-letterish qualities
- Discretion
- Logbook poetry
- "The body is female"
- The classics
- Gobbeting
- Eco-friendly, carbon-neutral
- "Ya wanna see the Rauschenberg?"
- A lyric speaker
- Havey-cavey
- Egg season
- Blips
- Squeak!
- Showers of blood
- Syllabub in a martini glass
- Clubs of Quidnuncs
- Gloop!
- Andamento
- An egg sculpted in lard, with goggles on
- 100 feet wide
- The aquatic ape?
- A mass of dreary, derailleur-obsessed tour guides
- Single vision
- SHC
- Bibliomania
- Viagravation, sacrilicious
- Back to the future
- Bicycle day
- A colossal eye
- Sibylline leaves
- Geomantic concerns
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The patient is said to have been disturbed by the fact that the character played by Norton in Primal Fear faked his MPD. It's been a while since I've seen the film, but my recollection is that the character was presented as having a genuine split personality - the vicious half knows everything that's going on, while the sweet, vulnerable half knows nothing about the actions of the other. The vicious half jeers at the vulnerable half as if this were a different person. I read a book many years ago (The Faces of Eve, maybe?) in which the person was said to have had three versions: one knew everything about the activities of the other two, while the other two knew only their own slices of the world.
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