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Today is Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:23 pm (U.S. central time).

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
-- Rolande Barthes

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