See, if interested, just the front page of the Online Dating w a different pynchon allusion

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> The Kerouac Years
> Thomas Powers
> Jack Kerouac’s short life, big talent and last dollar were all just about exhausted when the young writer Joyce Glassman bought him a dinner of hot dogs and beans on a Saturday night in New York City in January 1957. Glassman understood he was broke, but the rest she learned only later. She thought Kerouac was beautiful, with his blue eyes and sunburned skin. He had recently returned from 63 days alone on a fire tower in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific North-West, where he wrote furiously in his journal and was tormented by dark thoughts of mortality. More
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> Occupy
> David Runciman
> It is harder to organise a political movement to help young people than old people. Young people are less susceptible to being organised and they lack the patience for the hard graft of a long political campaign. They are more likely to be seduced by the weak ties of social networking and the false promise of slogans like ‘We are the 99 per cent.’ Nonetheless, these are the victims who need the most help and who lack the clout to be heard. We should do something for them. More
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> Online Dating
> Emily Witt
> I went on a date with a classical composer who invited me to a John Cage concert at Juilliard. I wanted to like this man, who was excellent on paper, but I didn’t. He invited me to a concert at Columbia and then to dinner at his house. I said yes but I cancelled at the last minute, claiming illness and adding that I thought our dating had run its course. My cancellation, he wrote, had cost him a ‘ton of time shopping, cleaning and cooking that I didn’t really have to spare in the first place a few days before a deadline …’ He punctuated almost exclusively with Pynchonian ellipses. In the months that followed he continued to write, long emails with updates of his life, and I continued not responding until it came to seem as if he was lobbing his sadness into a black hole, where I absorbed it into my own sadness. More
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> Paul Taylor: Stochastically Orthogonal
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> The Editors: Hilary Mantel’s Phantoms
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> Oliver Miles: The Arms Dealer’s Assistant
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> Nick Richardson: Whizz with a Circuit Board
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> Short Cuts
> Thomas Jones
> At Hyde Park Corner
> Jonathan Meades
> Letters
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> Astra Taylor: On Wall Street
> John Pemble: Victorian Corpse Trade
> Karl Miller: Eric Hobsbawm
> Julian Bell: Perspective’s Arab Origins
> Michael Kulikowski: Hellenistic Navies
> Neal Ascherson: Joachim Fest
> Stephen Walsh: Music in 1853
> David Simpson: The Epic of Everest
> Corey Robin: Achieving Disunity
> Matthew Bevis: ‘Treasure Island’
> Adam Mars-Jones: ‘The Casual Vacancy’
> John Simon: Strindberg
> Poems by Robin Robertson and August Kleinzahler
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> Jarvis Cocker with Jon McGregor: Mother, Brother, Lover
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