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		<title>Settling Comancheria</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/07/settling-comancheria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ok Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches (...) by S.C. Gwynne filled me in on the development of some points of American culture. The cowboy has always seemed to just exist.. and I've never been able to imagine that popular figure as having a history. By cowboy I don't mean the literal cow-punchers, but the western image of a tough Indian fighter on a fast horse and armed with a six shooter and rifle. The elements that go into this fighting man were—according to this book—developed in Texas as a response to the Comanches.]]></description>
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		<title>Experience of the Picture Book</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/01/experience-of-the-picture-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[paperboy] As I read through picture books with my daughter I stumble across images and concepts that are part of a past world. Sometimes these are attitudes about family or women. There are books I need to put down or gently "disappear" because their world is not my world. More interesting are the ones that portray an aspect of material or social culture that is gone.. or on the way to being gone.]]></description>
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		<title>The Qur&#8217;an as iPhone App</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/12/the-quran-as-iphone-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing to recognize about this app is its literalness when it comes to making the Qur'an available on this platform. The idea has not been to re-make the Qur'an for a new age. Or to rethink what the experience of a book should be like. Instead the app has a cover that mimics an actual book.]]></description>
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		<title>A Never Before Seen Image of Peter Rabbit</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/12/a-never-before-seen-image-of-peter-rabbit/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/12/a-never-before-seen-image-of-peter-rabbit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were you to desire to possess the complete works of Beatrix Potter, you would have two options. You could buy either the World of Peter Rabbit box of books that fit snugly in your hand (see above). The name puts you in mind of Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, treating the books as if they constitute some synoptic view of an imagined place. Your second choice would be a singe volume edition of Beatrix Potter the Complete Tales.]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing a New Book</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/10/organizing-a-new-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ibn Munqidh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A benefit of reading ancient texts is that they often supply unexpected creative models. We are in a time of creative transition now, and by casting an eye back several centuries we can find new ways for organizing thoughts and ideas. Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation (12th century) manages to paint a pretty thorough picture of warfare during the Crusades, but it does so by means of a mosaic technique of moving from short episode to short episode by means of mental associations.]]></description>
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		<title>Gleanings from Maqrizi VII: Editing Your Rough Draft</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/10/gleanings-from-maqrizi-vii-editing-your-rough-draft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Maqrizi's section on the al-Aqmar Mosque does not run too long, but it has two passages in which we hear al-Maqrizi himself speaking.]]></description>
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		<title>Raising a Book Lover</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/10/raising-a-book-lover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that my daughter is growing past simple cardboard books things are getting fun in terms of reading. I recently got this book shelf so that I would have a place to display the picture books we're buying. This hasn't solved the other problem of the pile of library books.. but it's a start.]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the Compiler?</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/09/return-of-the-compiler/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/09/return-of-the-compiler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When al-Maqrizi introduces a quotation from another book he uses an odd construction. He often writes "the compiler of such-and-such book." The Arabic word for "compiler" is jâmi'—which means: a person who collects or brings together. That will strike most modern readers as an odd way to refer to an author. Our authors create, they don't compile.]]></description>
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		<title>Trail with Commentary</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/08/trail-with-commentary/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/08/trail-with-commentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I explored Horicon Marsh and came across a short trail that included commentary. This is called an "interpretive trail".. and I always like these. Today I was thinking about the extent to which a trail like this depends upon assumptions about the printed commentary.]]></description>
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		<title>The Library of Alexandria</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/the-library-of-alexandria/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/the-library-of-alexandria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But despite the marvel of the building, one begins to wonder if the whole project is not disastrously ill-conceived. We are living in an age when dreams of a universal library and universal access to knowledge are everywhere.. and the ancient Library of Alexandria often lurks in the background of such discussions as an ideal. But of course these contemporary dreams are latched to the Internet and its possibilities.]]></description>
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