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From Lampedusa to the Magna Carta
July 29 2008
After sitting on my reading list for years, I finally got to The Leopard by Lampedusa (strangely for me, just after I finished the book, the NY Times ran two articles about Lampedusa and his 50 year old book). It was riveting, but in a way that was hard to explain to others - I lost most people around the time I said "do you remember who Garibaldi was?".
I couldn't stop thinking that Lampedusa ... more
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