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I am Dani Smith, sometimes known around the web as Eglentyne.  I am a writer in Texas.  I like my beer and my chocolate bitter and my pens pointy.

This blog is one of my hobbies.  I also knit, sew, run, parent, cook, eat, read, and procrastinate.  I have too many hobbies and don’t sleep enough.  Around here I talk about whatever is on my mind, mostly reading and writing, but if you hang out long enough, some knitting is bound to show up.  

Thank you for respecting my intellectual property and for promoting the free-flow of information and ideas.  If you’re not respecting intellectual property, then you’re stealing.  Don’t be a stealer.  Steelers are ok sometimes (not all of them), but don’t be a thief.  

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    Aug152010

    The Power of the Love Story

    Posted on DateSunday, August 15, 2010 at 10:39PM

    A quote too long for Twitter:

    “It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price.  I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery.  Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer.”  

    Jeffrey Eugenides, Introduction, My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead

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