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		<title>Analects of the Core #178: David Ferry on Storms</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/07/analects-of-the-core-178-david-ferry-on-storms/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/07/analects-of-the-core-178-david-ferry-on-storms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In view of the coming storm tomorrow, the Core would like to remind everyone to remain calm and intellectual. To aid this process, here is a sample from David Ferry&#8217;s Epic of Gilgamesh (studied in CC101), on the relevant topic of storms: &#8220;In the early hours of the next morning dawning there was the noise of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #177: Jane Austen on Reading</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/23/analects-of-the-core-177-jane-austen-on-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/23/analects-of-the-core-177-jane-austen-on-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to Jane Austen&#8217;s Pride and Prejudice, which is studied this semester by CC 202, here is today&#8217;s analect: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! &#8212; When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #176: Michel de Montaigne on Fear</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/16/michel-de-montaigne-on-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/16/michel-de-montaigne-on-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Core wishes students and faculty a very fruitful and enjoyable New Year and semester, and welcomes everyone back to the trials and tribulations of intellectual life. To boost students&#8217; courage for the coming months, and instill some Core spirit, here is today&#8217;s analect: “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #175: Crime and Punishment</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/14/analects-of-the-core-175-crime-and-punishment/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/14/analects-of-the-core-175-crime-and-punishment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Relating to the work of CC202, here is the next analect, from Dostoevski: The candlestick had long since burned low in the twisted candlestick, dimly lighting the poverty-stricken room and murderer and the harlot who had come together so strangely to read the eternal book.]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #174: Cervantes on Sleep</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/14/analects-of-the-core-174-cervantes-on-sleep/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/14/analects-of-the-core-174-cervantes-on-sleep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dedicated to all sleep-deprived Core students and faculty preparing their battlements for the approaching finals&#8217; week, and relating to the work of CC201, here is today&#8217;s analect from Cervantes&#8217; Don Quixote: All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #173: Political Writings</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/07/analects-of-the-core-173-political-writings/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/07/analects-of-the-core-173-political-writings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Relating to temperance, and the work of John Locke studied in CC203, here is today&#8217;s analect: For esteem and reputation being a sort of moral strength, whereby a man is enabled to do, as it were, by an augmented force, that which others, of equal natural parts and natural power, cannot do without it; he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #172: The Odyssey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/07/analects-of-the-core-172-the-odyssey/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/07/analects-of-the-core-172-the-odyssey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a tribute to all sleep-deprived Core students and faculty near the semester&#8217;s end, here is today&#8217;s analect in celebration of Sleep&#8217;s regenerative power: A man in a distant field, no hearthfires near, will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day; so in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #171: Life Ascending</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/05/analects-of-the-core-171-life-ascending/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/05/analects-of-the-core-171-life-ascending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expanding further on the works studied in CC106, here is the next analect from Nick Lane&#8217;s Life Ascending: The Great Inventions of Evolution: We may not enjoy the fact much, but we&#8217;ve recognized since the early 1920&#8242;s that going moderately hungry prolongs life. It&#8217;s called calorie restriction. Rats fed a balanced diet, but with about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #170: Collapse</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/05/analects-of-the-core-170-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/05/analects-of-the-core-170-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From a book that sometimes plays a part in CC106, Jared Diamond&#8217;s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, here is today&#8217;s analect: The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe&#8217;s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #169: Discourse on Method and Meditations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/29/analects-of-the-core-169-discourse-on-method-and-meditations/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/29/analects-of-the-core-169-discourse-on-method-and-meditations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to the reading that the students of CC201 have done on Descartes&#8217; work, here is today&#8217;s analect: Although in approaching the flame I feel heat, and even though in approaching it a little too closely I feel pain, there is still no reason that can convince me that there is some quality in the [...]]]></description>
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