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*clears throat nervously* Hello. My name is GidgetPowr and I'm a bookaholic. It has been one day since my last purchase. Yesterday I acquired three books: The Soul's Code by James Hillman (recommended by a friend), A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1942 to the Present by Ward Churchill, and Selected Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. I'd like to share a short poem of Shelley's if you'd be so kind as to listen. *ahem*

Mutability

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We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;

How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,

Streaking the darkness radiantly! -- yet soon

Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:

Or, like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings

Give various response to each varying blast,

To whose frail frame no second motion brings

One mood or modulation like the last.

We rest. -- A dream has power to poison sleep;

We rise. -- One wandering thought pollutes the day;

We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;

Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:

It is the same! -- For, be it joy or sorrow,

The path of its departure still is free:

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;

Nought may endure but Mutability.

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All kidding aside, I have added yet more books to my reading list. I'm really looking forward to reading the book on Gencide. I was nearly late returning from lunch yesterday because I couldn't put it down (hence the decision to buy it). Just a few pages was all it took for me to take the bait. The poetry book was definitely an impulse buy, but I've really enjoyed the poems thus far. Besides, it was only $1.50. Hee hee!