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		<title>Mozart&#8217;s Last Joke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mozart&#8217;s Last Joke Learning Mozart’s Requiem  &#8212; the centerpiece of the University of Arizona Community Chorus spring concert, April 29, 3 pm, FYI – is an intense and wonderful experience.  I know the piece well, and have said on previous occasion that its Kyrie is the cry of a desperate dying man for mercy for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicine and the Humanities:  A Collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussant remarks, First Friday presentations, Department of English, University of Arizona 12/2/11 Introduction:  Dr. Tilly Warnock, professor emerita, University of Arizona Speakers:  Dr. Ron Grant, director, University of Arizona Medical Humanities Program Dr. Rishi Goyal, Ph.D. Professor Fenton Johnson, discussant &#160; Recent years have witnessed the rise of scientists writing as Renaissance men – I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs and Wondering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 2011 &#160; The second afternoon of an eight-day silent Zen Buddhist retreat on an island in Puget Sound, I was dive-bombed by a bald eagle. Here are the facts: The retreat center (a rented Christian summer camp, more about that later) has a labyrinth, where the meditator must walk every pathway to reach the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Sex in the Time of AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to my latest op-ed, this in the Los Angeles Times of 5 June 2011.  I have preserved the original title.  In the editing &#8212; possibly a telling comment in itself? &#8212; &#8220;love&#8221; was dropped. &#160; http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-aids-20110605,0,4195576.story &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The Destiny of Us</title>
		<link>http://www.fentonjohnson.com/site/2011/04/14/the-destiny-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Destiny of Us Fenton Johnson / April 2011 &#160; Oyez, oyez! Rise and hail! Bush wren, emu, crake and rail, Moa, parakeet, and chat, Puffleg, chiffchaff, after that An aged passenger is sat. With the dodo, twelve’s complete, Ivory bill may take his seat In jurisprudent black. &#160; In the docket, insolent, Man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the Quake:  Giving Up Illusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following ran as an opinion essay in the Los Angeles Times of 16 March 2011: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-earthquake-20110316,0,2960695.story]]></description>
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		<title>Violence in the Desert, Violence in Our Hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[12 January 2011 &#8212; Tucson, Arizona The mainstream consensus is that Jared Loughner was deranged, and the Tucson tragedy, however regrettable, is just another of those things that happen in a crowded, complicated, difficult world.  What comes to mind:  the Cuyahoga River of Ohio, at one point so polluted it burst into flames.  One might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madame Bovary:  Desire, Grace, God</title>
		<link>http://www.fentonjohnson.com/site/2010/08/12/madame-bovary-desire-grace-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in loquacious, verbose English &#8212; elegantly performed in my audio version by Simon Vance, in a translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling &#8212; the precision of Gustave Flaubert’s French comes through. We are all searchers and Emma Bovary is the distillation of our longing.  She marries dull, devoted Charles to escape the routines of her childhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Saw In California</title>
		<link>http://www.fentonjohnson.com/site/2010/08/09/what-i-saw-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8/9/10, a nice sequential date. From Salt Lake City I cross the vast high sagebrush-dotted desert of Nevada, with the only variant in 400 miles a roadkill ruffed grouse.  As I approach California thunderheads mass over the high Sierra.  I pass through Reno and, after 2000-plus miles of effortless open road, precisely as I cross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings from the Sunflower State</title>
		<link>http://www.fentonjohnson.com/site/2010/08/04/greetings-from-the-sunflower-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fenton Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great inclined plain of Kansas is very impressive.  The fields are emerald green as if it&#8217;s spring, until near Salina I arrive at amber waves of grain that are being harvested, with combines moving back and forth, back and forth, cutting the black earth&#8217;s hair.  In my rear view mirror I see the long [...]]]></description>
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