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class=656432217-17052010>Friends,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=656432217-17052010>A recent discussion
here resulted in my commenting to a friend offlist that everything I know about
Italy I learned from reading Mario Puzo's excellent early novel The Fortunate
Pilgrim. Then I realized how dumb that musta sounded: Puzo was born in
America, and the novel is about an American childhood in an Italian
neighborhood. So I still don't know anything about
Italy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=656432217-17052010>Question please: if
you wished to explain your native culture to someone outside, which book would
you recommend and why? This question is not what is your favorite book, or
what explains transhumanism etc. Rather, if you wanted to explain
your native land and culture for instance, which book or which author?
Tomasz for instance, would you recommend Michener's Poland?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=656432217-17052010>USians, you get to
play too. Personally I am a huge fan of Steinbeck, but his stuff is dated
now, having pretty much ended in the 1960s. His Travels With Charley is a
great 1960s book.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=656432217-17052010>Websites are OK too,
in fact preferrable in some important ways.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=656432217-17052010>spike</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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