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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Jared Yates Sexton--The Midnight Kingdom--someone who writes just like John Gardner--i e. beautifully
and makes sense. Incidentally, John Gardner died around the year this writer was born and I was "born again" arriving in the USA--only to live through it now. Excited to be reading this book, soon.
John Gardner died in a motor-cycle accident.
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Kingdom-History-Paranoia-Coming/dp/0593185234?asin=0593185234&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
An excellent, excellent movie--The Burial--On a par with Mississippi Burniing--
You can see it on Amazon Prime--based on a real life case and the original story in the New Yorker. Court scenes--the funeral monopoly that...
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Directed by Miloš Forman Screenplay by Peter Shaffer Based on Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pus...
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https://www.ecoticias.com/en/traffic-lights-fourth-color/10086/