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      <title><![CDATA[ Moved! ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:53:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ This Blog has moved.
Kindly update your links and records.
Best regards.... <a href=/post/189049/Moved%21></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Of nerds, stars and romanticism ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:04:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ <IMG alt="Morrison starring in FSU documentary" hspace=5 src="http://immanuelmifsud.clarence.com/img/jimb.jpg" align=left vspace=5 border=0>
Today's Corriere della Sera, ran a short article about a recent discovery of an early 1960s documentary produced by Florida State University in which Jim Morrison appears as an 18 year old applying to study at the said university. The short video&nbsp... <a href=/post/188875/Of+nerds%2C+stars+and+romanticism></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Blogscapes ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:10:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ The recent proliferation of Maltese blogs is an interesting social and intellectual phenomenon. While some of these blogs are merely diary-like posts fulfilling the owners' narcissitic and exhibitionist needs, others are creating a discourse which is not... <a href=/post/188141/Blogscapes></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Nostalgia for a rotten regime ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:06:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ I get a kick reading Mark Vella Feltrinelli's blog. I've decided it is one of the best, if not *the* best weblogs by a fellow Maltese citizen. Like myself he is one of the 80s generation who is still trying to come to terms with the period when he came o... <a href=/post/187326/Nostalgia+for+a+rotten+regime></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ The Priests' Uprising ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:27:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Twenty years ago, when the socialist regime in Malta was already preparing for its own funeral, the now defunct "ateatru" produced <I>Ir-Rewwixta tal-Qassisin</I> (The Priests' Uprising) by Alfred Buttigieg, a Maltese playwright whose untimely decision to qui... <a href=/post/187164/The+Priests%27+Uprising></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ The Land of Love and Freedom ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:29:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Even today, the Times carried out reports on the current tense situation at Safi Barracks, following Thursday's peaceful protests which turned bloody when the Army intervened. Today's reports say that after the morning incidents the immigrants at Safi st... <a href=/post/181408/The+Land+of+Love+and+Freedom></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:34:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Macbeth, Act2 Scene 3
This morning The Times (Malta) published harrowing pictures of Maltese soldiers beating refuge seekers who were participating in a peaceful protest at the Safi Military Barracks where they are currently detained. The pictures speak... <a href=/post/181234/Confusion+now+hath+made+his+masterpiece%21></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ When your little cat dies ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ <IMG style="WIDTH: 112px; HEIGHT: 119px" height=12 alt=kyra hspace=5 src="http://www.immanuelmifsud.com/cat.gif" width=12 align=right vspace=5 border=2>2nd January 2005. 9pm
I just returned from Slovakia. Been travelling since 8am: taxi from Jana's flat to Vrutky train station; train trip from Vrutky to Bratislava; taxi from Bratislava train station to bus station; coach trip from Bratislava to Vienna... <a href=/post/180113/When+your+little+cat+dies></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Room 336 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Ok, so I've decided to keep my word and post another entry re my Brussels visit.
The round table conference was a great experience. There were writers, journalists and literary critics from the Netherlands, Belgium, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, ... <a href=/post/180107/Room+336></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Brrrrrussels ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ I'm posting this entry from the Metropole Hotel in Brussels. Outside it is freezing cold. Arrived late in the afternoon and after checking in at this hotel went straight to the Grande Place where the Christmas spirit is already at its best. I've been inv... <a href=/post/180040/Brrrrrussels></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ A NIGHT AT THE OPERA ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:54:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ My country never ceases to amaze me. Over sixty years ago it was blitzed (and as we like adding but not beaten!) by Fascist and Nazi planes. During one heavy air raid, the opera house, which stood magnificently (or not, depending on one's architectural t... <a href=/post/168978/A+NIGHT+AT+THE+OPERA></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Baking White Pizza ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:47:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ That's how I spent my weekend. 
Saturday morning I woke up planning to do one million things. It's like that with every end of the week. Not that I labour much during weekdays, I mean I spend it doing what I have been doing for the past ten years: talki... <a href=/post/168169/Baking+White+Pizza></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ My Little Brother's Back ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:55:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Those who know me well know I am the youngest in the family. I have four brothers, three sisters ... all older than me. What no one knows is that I have adopted a little brother I call Cornelius. He moved in with me on 11 September 2001. Can't really for... <a href=/post/167890/My+Little+Brother%27s+Back></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Nema Jugoslavia! ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ There is this simpleton called Ivan, lost in the underground labyrinth somewhere beneath the surface of the earth. He asks his way to Yugoslavia and this soldier answers him: Nema Jugoslavia! For citizens of former Yugoslavia who proclaimed themselves as... <a href=/post/166815/Nema+Jugoslavia%21></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Remembering Sarajevo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:26:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ <IMG style="WIDTH: 126px; HEIGHT: 102px" height=177 alt="Emir Kusturica" hspace=5 src="http://immanuelmifsud.com/kusturica.jpg" width=98 align=left vspace=5 border=0>Last May, Emir Kusturica's most recent work started showing. Life is a Miracle is more than just a glance at the war in Bosnia. Born in Sarajevo in 1954, Kusturica is the mad poet par excellence projecting the beauty he sees in the background of the tra... <a href=/post/155082/Remembering+Sarajevo></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Krzysztof's 10 commandments behind the Wall ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 13:13:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ There are books and films which, for some reason or another, "change your life". Well, I wouldn't say they actually change your life, but definitely they leave a mark, and, perhaps, they set you to change your life. Before age 16 I never read a book, but... <a href=/post/149610/Krzysztof%27s+10+commandments+behind+the+Wall></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ An email from a journalist ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:34:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Yet another journalist asking for an interview in the light of my little country's accession to the EU. I'm tempted to start believing that Malta is in fact important to our fellow Europeans...surely from a cultural standpoint.
In his email, the Italian... <a href=/post/139568/An+email+from+a+journalist></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Is Malta that different? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:21:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ A few weeks ago I was interviewed by a journalist from the French magazine <I>L'Express</I>, who is currently conducting a series of interviews with writers hailing from the new EU member states. Among the many subjects we spoke about, the journalist was part... <a href=/post/136972/Is+Malta+that+different></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ When an intellectual dies ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2003 14:31:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ <img alt="Edward Said" src="http://immanuelmifsud.clarence.com/archive/images/edwardsaid.jpg" width="100" height="120" border="0" />
<br><br>
In one of a myriad of interviews he gave, the French philosopher Michel Fouault, once said that intellectuals do not exist. Obviously, those who know Foucault's work and the spirit driving it, will immediately comprehend that these words conceal a...</br> <a href=/post/32048/When+an+intellectual+dies></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ The Most Beautiful Woman ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:37:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ <img alt="The Sleeping Lady" src="http://immanuelmifsud.clarence.com/archive/images/sleeping lady.jpg" width="378" height="222" border="0" />
<br><br>This, I firmly believe, is the most wonderful piece of art. A lying lady who has been asleep for some three thousand - some even say four thousand - years. She is not dead, just sleeping. She may also be dreaming: a dream so beautiful that she has n...</br> <a href=/post/28538/The+Most+Beautiful+Woman></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ A week ago in Parma ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:33:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ A week ago I was in Parma, together with 24 other young authors from the so called New Europe.  Gremese Editore published an anthology of short stories, one from each EU member states, Racconti <i>Senza Dogana</i>. This was an initiative of PEN Club Italia, o... <a href=/post/27800/A+week+ago+in+Parma></a> ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Waiting for Godot ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:36:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Hello. I am Immanuel Mifsud from Malta. It is Sunday 14th September 2003. It's my first day of the blog. Here I intend to keep an irregular diary and post some comments about things which bug me and others which please me.

If you are intersted you can a... <a href=/post/27789/Waiting+for+Godot></a> ]]></description>
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