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		<title>Lessons in career advancement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So apparently one way to get to the top of my field&#8211;Walt Whitman studies&#8211;is to be a bully. Or perhaps just an outright psychopath. Dave McNair. &#8220;Tale of Woe: The death of the VQR’s Kevin Morrissey.&#8221; The Hook.]]></description>
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		<title>Farnham reading Whitman in California (1861)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The famous spiritualist James M Peebles met Eliza Farnham in Stockton in 1861 and they shared a reading from Leaves of Grass at a time when Peebles was bereft by the loss of all three of his natural children and particularly the loss of his adoptive son, Louie. Were it not for the feeble health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melville vs Whitman on sailor morality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Redburn, I have just discovered that Herman Melville explicitly lays out my thesis that the entire American economy during the Age of Sail depended upon the exploitation of sailor personalities, which were innately reckless, impulsive, addictive, and thrill-seeking: &#8230;with the majority of them, the very fact of their being sailors, argues a certain recklessness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leavesofgrass.org/u1698t43/?p=311</link>
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		<title>Still waiting&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He says that one of the convictions that underlie his &#8220;Leaves&#8221; is the conviction that the &#8220;crowning growth of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic,&#8221;—a prophecy which in our times, I confess, does not seem very near fulfillment. &#8211;John Burroughs, 1896]]></description>
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		<title>Dominant Whitman scholar embroiled in controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walt Whitman scholar Ted Genoways, at work on archives of the poet&#8217;s correspondence, is embroiled in a controversy over alleged workplace bullying at the prestigious journal which he edits, the Virginia Quarterly Review. Concern over academic bullying has surfaced following the July 30th suicide by the journal&#8217;s managing editor, Kevin Morrissey. After Morrissey’s death, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Heights Association evening of Whitman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 1st, 2010, the Brooklyn Heights Association hosted &#8220;I Do Not Doubt I Am Limitless: Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn&#8221; to &#8220;channel the psychedelic spirit of poet, journalist, humanist and Brooklynite Walt Whitman, set against the stunning waterfront backdrop on the Pier 1 Harbor View Lawn of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Another Quaker lover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s something I want you to do for me, Horace, some day: I am going to ask you to make particular inquiries. There was a fellow over there on the Market Street lines: I knew him well—loved him—and he me, too, I am sure: Joe Adams was his name. He was a starter there. Occupied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinepoetry: Preguntas Hermosas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not Whitman related, but truly spectacular cinepoetry by Superfad.]]></description>
		<link>http://leavesofgrass.org/u1698t43/?p=298</link>
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		<title>SVG can add half a dimension to 2D animation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t you know? SVG isn&#8217;t just for vectors. It can also work magic on bitmaps. Including a sequence of bitmaps. That means you can tinker with video, particularly animated frames exported as transparent PNGs. Perhaps the most promising SVG filters for animation are the lighting and shadow filters. The drop-shadow effect is obviously desirable, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leavesofgrass.org/u1698t43/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Lessons in character design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again: another year, another significant improvement of my character design, using several techniques for customizing an iClone avatar. The new body is based upon the G3 Nude avatar. I painted most of the clothing directly on the skin. The cuffs on the shirt and pants are the Rolled-Up Sleeves from the G3 [...]]]></description>
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