A Bend in the Lane

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There is a sad statistic out there on the net that 90% of women will have at least one new year resolution that states "get in shape" or "lose weight". Thought this might be a tiny reminder to appreciate and accept your body. 

Bibliophiles must know the agony of the assault of to-read books on book shelves. The books that one buys in an ambitious impulse but somehow never got around to finishing for whatever reasons - the print is too small, the writing sucks, i dont feel for the characters, there is a typo on pg156 - ad infinitum.  Last I checked, here's my wicked list - 1. Andew O'Hagan's Our Fathers 2. Mahabharata 3. Freakanomics 4. Art and physics 5. Plato's The Republic (never got beyond Book IV) 6. Chomsky for Beginners 7. The Hill Station by J G Farrell

Why does it matter what Oprah Winfrey weighs now? Why is it headlines on CNN? Why?

Excerpt -  "Nothing is left of the dead but earth. Can you refute this wisdom? --Perhaps I can. -And how will you do it, hero boy? --By the legend of my life, with which I refute all sophistries. By a myth of homecoming and a myth of resurrection. Come back to Raintree County, wandering child. Remember the great deaths and the great homecomings. Come back, and bring a sprig of lilac. For you will always be on trains and coming home, and the legend that recalled you from the City will always be tingling along the wires of the Republic. Come back to Raintree County and find your home again. And you will find again the sphinxlike silence of the earth. Knock hard, young hero, on the gates of death. Listen to the wail of the train at the crossing. This is the myth of America and of those who cross America on trains. This is the myth of those who come back home.