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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War Sebastian Faulks

<br />In 1910, England's Stephen Wraysford, a junior executive in a textile firm, is sent by his company to northern France. There he falls for Isabelle Azaire, a young and beautiful matron who abandons her abusive husband and sticks by Stephen long enough to conceive a child. Six years later, Stephen is back in France, as a British officer fighting ...

The Elephant and the Maruti : Radhika Jha

<br />Taken away from reality in tokyo by this wonderful book. normally it takes me months to read a book but this one i absorbed quickly. every minute that was spare i used to get myself draw back to into it. stories from india with at the end a suprise and amazon has it.

Hackers and Painters.

hackers-and-painters.jpgMay 2003 (This essay is derived from a guest lecture at Harvard, which incorporated an earlier talk at Northeastern.) When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would also be interested in painting.

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