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15th September 2006 with 5 Comments

The publishing Web site Bowker reported that there were more new book titles sold in Great Britain last year - 206,000 new titles, an increase of 28 percent - than in the United States -172,000 new titles, a decrease of 18 percent.
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This is from Rilke’s third Sonnet to Orpheus:

. . . song is existence. Easy [...]

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