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"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." - Doris Lessing

• Slate serves up overlooked books and I celebrate the return of Summary Judgment.
• Beyond Delay follows the 20 most corrupt members of Congress.
• Send yourself an e-mail in the future and begin "some sort of correspondence in which desire and waiting will play their part and even may be the anguish of an Unknown out of ourselves and therefore out of control" (via David Cotner).
• Can you tell a Sunni from a Shiite?
• If you smoke, you will have never been born.
• "Research on the link between relationships and physical health has established that people with rich personal networks...recover more quickly from disease and live longer."
• New York is sending this woman a message.
• Impossible Author Dies at 70