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for mandarin, à salamanca

Friday 8 September 2006 | I like a cookie

CIEN SONETAS DE AMOR — Pablo Neruda, tr. Stephen Tapscott XVII No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio o flecha de claveles que propogan el fuego: te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras, secretamente, entre la sobra y el alma. Te amo como la planta que no florece y lleva dentro [...]

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Friday 8 September 2006 | I like a cookie

Whiteboard cleaner cleans whiteboards! (Courtesy of Life after Coffee.) (Although, to be fair, we came across this because we were looking for instructions on how to clean a whiteboard, and found this fine tutorial by an Internet author who assumes nothing, which, given the inaptitude of your unnarrator when it comes to a great many [...]

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