mgardiner

mgardiner's Life List

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   Read Borges' "Collected Fictions"

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3. 2.

   Work hard to become a better editor. (Your pefectionism will make this task hell.) 1 entry

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   See play live (Top-Ten Alphabetical): Aphex Twin, Beck*, Cat Power*, The Cure*, Death Cab*, Iggy Pop*, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Mogwai, Tool)

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5. 4.

   After Faulkner, read Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" and "Blood Meridian" (Buy)

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6. 5.

   Read selected Chekov short story collections (Buy) 1 entry

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7. 6.

   Read the Oxford Book of American Poetry (Buy)

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8. 7.

   Return to London (Possibly when Mackenzie has settled into her Post-Doc and I have money on hand to do it).

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9. 8.

   Become a better typist on my Smith Corona.

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10. 9.

    Organize all loose paper files

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11. 10.

    Read Kafka's "The Complete Stories" 1 entry

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12. 11.

    Read Hemingway's "Collected Stories" (Buy 'Everyman' edition) 1 entry

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13. 12.

    Read the Oxford Anthology of English Poetry 1 entry

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    Read Coleridge's major works: Poems, Lectures on Shakespeare, Letters, Biographia Literaria, and so on... 1 entry

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15. 14.

    Meet Noam at one of his talks

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16. 15.

    Finish one of your drafts and e-mail a letter to Noam

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17. 16.

    Read the Oxford Anthology of Canadian Verse in English (Buy)

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    Read, re-read (with annotations), study critical essays on, and read a final time whatever Shakespeare plays you want. First Grouping: King Lear, then Hamlet, then The Merchant of Venice, then Macbeth, then Titus Andronicus. 1 entry

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