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		<title>Huxley&#8217;s &#8220;Time&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Del lent me Aldous Huxley&#8217;s : &#8220;Time Must Have an End&#8221;&#8230; an interesting book&#8230;
in it Bruno says: &#8220;Remorse is pride&#8217;s ersatz for repentance, the ego&#8217;s excuse for  not accepting God&#8217;s forgiveness. The condition of being forgiven is  self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful ,  because the reproached self isn&#8217;t abandoned, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lies My Father Told Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1975 my father, Ted Allan, gave me his script for the movie, Lies My Father told Me, and asked me if I thought I could novelise it.  I did, and I did (and I&#8217;ll tell you more, if you ask).
While it was in print, it was taught in high school English courses!
Now, out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Best Science Fiction Books of All Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ten Best Science Fiction Books of All Time! *
The ten best science fiction books of all time include: -
The Crysalids by John Wyndham      The last quarter of the Crysalids turns into a car chase, but eh first 3/4s is so good that I still rank it as one of the very best.
The Dreaming Jewels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Allan: a partial biography&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/ted-allan-a-partial-biography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father used to say that Norman Bethune was the most exciting person that he every new (as  an introduction to discussing Bethune). My father, Ted Allan, was the most exciting person that I ever knew&#8230;
I have posted 13 chapters of a (20 chapter) biography&#8230; and more are coming.
The first chapter, (The Pen as Sword:
Ted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heather&#8217;s Mastectomy</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/heathers-mastectomy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her mid-twenties, when Heather left a &#8220;restrictive&#8221; relationship, she decided that she wanted to celerbrate her body. Among the things she did to validate her body was to pose at a &#8220;life&#8221; class I attend.

Then she got a diagnosis of breast cancer, underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy.

&#8220;Heather&#8217;s mastectomy&#8221; is a series of twelve drawings/painting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pipedreams</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/pipedreams-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone should read my novel!
Pipedreams was my hippie fairytale. Was?  Is!
Written in the 1970s (all of them years &#8211; an epic, later pruned
and rewritten in the 90s)
Illustrated (by myself and others)

My friend, Willie, thought it was splendid, and funny. Better than the Magus (and that&#8217;s some praise).
I wonder how it reads today.  Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a personal biography</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/a-personal-biography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve edited the first chapter of my autobiographical writings, a bit (it doesn&#8217;t ramble verbosely quiet as much to start). Take a look

   click on the pidgeon to home
 
        please write to me at normanallandr@yahoo.ca
www.normanallan.com


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		<title>Ted Allan: chapter fifteen, Genevieve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Allan, a biography; chapter 15, Genevieve
A few years back I wrote a biography of my father, the dramatist, Ted Allan.Then a short while ago I took it down off the internet to re-edit it, and I&#8217;m putting it back up chapter by chapter. Today I&#8217;ve posted a draft of chapter 15 which is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Allan, a biography; chapter 14, Sex</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/ted-allan-a-biography-chapter-14-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Allan, a biography; chapter 14, Sex
&#8220;Ted&#8217;s favorite things were work (writing) and women. However, when he was younger, sex was not a simple pleasure.&#8221;
A few years back I wrote a biography of my father, the dramatist, Ted Allan.Then a short while ago I took it down off the internet to re-edit it, and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s Pulitzer Prize Petition</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/stephan-colberts-pulitzer-prize-petition/</link>
		<comments>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/stephan-colberts-pulitzer-prize-petition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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