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		<title>kindness of strangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[rarely do we venture from the vicinity of the station these, to avoid getting lost. sorry can i help you, a stranger would say, but how to describe the web of lanes before us and around us to a stranger? the stranger would stare in disbelief or shake his head in incomprehension, so we decline [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2011/03/kindness-of-strangers/</link>
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		<title>some lives are worse than others but the stories are all the same</title>
		<description><![CDATA[with a head in his hat and feet in his shoes he left the house, whistling a tune; he stopped whistling when he was hit by a breeze. that&#8217;s in short what happened in the first five minutes. then man joined the first queue he saw. people were queuing for all sorts of things, depending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2011/02/some-lives-are-worse-than-others-but-the-stories-are-all-the-same/</link>
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		<title>anything is good for something in the end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the thought of having to come up with something, anything, was too much. i can&#8217;t bear that, said sponge. breadroll entered the room and sat down. you are very formal today, said sponge, entering the room, like that. other people just come in. other people, as breadroll replied, also simply had enough, rather than claiming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2011/01/anything-is-good-for-something-in-the-end/</link>
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		<title>we don&#8217;t like days and are at odds with nights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[that they shouldn&#8217;t have gone out today and just stay put, sponge complained, nothing would have happened, that he knew full well that nothing is happening now, but that this nothingness was a different kind, emptier, bleaker, than the nothingness they normally faced with, the nothingness so familiar, so comforting, the old, the nothing-new nothingness. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/we-dont-like-days-and-are-at-odds-with-nights/</link>
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		<title>inflate or deflate or put on another show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[breath in, said sponge, you look too thin. your head looks big. breath out. your old self. don&#8217;t hold your breath. that&#8217;s my advice. then again, you might hold your breath for something. or someone. there&#8217;s a queue. wait a minute. that will be a short story, that there is the end.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/inflate-or-deflate-or-put-on-another-show/</link>
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		<title>egg and a query</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and what&#8217;s that all about? an egg running down the street? no egg is running down the street, only sponge and breadroll, no egg ever ran down the street unscathed. now we know. that&#8217;s it for now.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/egg-and-a-query/</link>
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		<title>come to mention it a melody sounds like the other</title>
		<description><![CDATA[it is impossible to describe music, yet this is precisely what would be required now, as breadroll whistled, as sponge whistled, both whistled a song. whistling they plodded along, alas, the plodding is not the subject here. let&#8217;s focus on the whistling. can we stop whistling, said breadroll between C-sharp and E. wait a minute, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/come-to-mention-it-a-melody-sounds-like-the-other/</link>
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		<title>a legend is born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and the man was fat and jolly you, say? yea, large belly, probably drunk, came in, ate cake, helped himself to a beer, vomitted and left. mumbled something about a job to do. he has to do? yea. he himself. with his bloodstock. cattle? don&#8217;t know, pigs maybe. or geese? you mean goats? yes, sheep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/a-legend-is-born/</link>
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		<title>somewhere would be something else now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[sponge said, i can see we&#8217;re getting there, but never told us where. if he had said, we&#8217;re getting somewhere, the nagging question wouldn&#8217;t be one, it wouldn&#8217;t be at all. we all need our targets set firmly. a man once went around the world, his target set firmly before him. when he came back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/somewhere-would-be-something-else-now/</link>
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		<title>the trail of art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so it is. won&#8217;t say more. enough said, spoken more. the artist, specialising in chocolate and red berries, and that&#8217;s were the sentence trails off, i assume, says sponge, painting, picture or some other, related word would have followed, if the artist, let&#8217;s call him that name, had lead a healthier life, healthy is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/the-trail-of-art/</link>
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		<title>word for the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[just one word: embroidery. said sponge. he added that people should be too concern about an explanation as the morning soon would turn to evening and queues would dissolve and waiting lists would be folded up for the night. he went on to state that embroidery as such had little to no part in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/word-for-the-day/</link>
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		<title>rather than a dialogue we&#8217;ll have two monologues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[no we can&#8217;t. really not? no. not a chance? no. you&#8217;ve heard it. nothing we can do. nothing to do with us. the neighbour had left the house this morning. never arrived where he was expected. never returned to where no-one was waiting. never called. we couldn&#8217;t tell what happened. so we&#8217;ll never hear the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/12/rather-than-a-dialogue-well-have-two-monologues/</link>
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		<title>short won&#8217;t last long</title>
		<description><![CDATA[short, snappy sentences, said sponge, get you places. do you think so, said breadroll. yes, said sponge, anyway, they&#8217;ll shorten the wait for the end. they&#8217;ll be through the report in no time and want another one.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/short-wont-last-long/</link>
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		<title>stand up and be counted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here&#8217;s the thing: the day has started without delay or complications and is expected to be brought to an end only in the very last minute, give or take a few moments. that is as much as sponge can reveal at this stage. we could say more, says breadroll, but there are rules and regulations. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/stand-up-and-be-counted/</link>
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		<title>a rose rose from her roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a flower, said sponge and left it at that. what else can you say i ask you, said the next next to sponge and stared at the flower. he reached into his pocket and got his sandwich out, tore bits off and threw them at the flower. the flower stood tiny and still. a pigeon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/a-rose-rose-from-her-roots/</link>
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		<title>some incidents are just for nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;ve never seen a heart attack, said sponge. you mean someone having one, said breadroll. of course. the other day, on the train. that man just got sick. oh yes, disgusting, all down his coat. he took it well. until they threw him out. no, he didn&#8217;t like that a bit. he was very upset. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/some-incidents-are-just-for-nothing/</link>
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		<title>collection of fictional facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a man. morning sun. a quiet street. scene set. the man leaves the house, turns back to see if the door is locked, really shut, a neighbour returns to fetch the umbrella he has forgotten, it won&#8217;t rain when i have it, and the other neighbour, who is not a neighbour but lives 2 storeys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/collection-of-fictional-facts/</link>
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		<title>if you don&#8217;t know what to say say something</title>
		<description><![CDATA[distinction rather than extinction, said sponge, is what our company is after. i&#8217;ve chosen those words carefully yet there are weaknesses in detail. he looked around the everexpanding room. breadroll sat on a chair that once had been near the middle of the room. why does this room have to grow bigger every minute, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/if-you-dont-know-what-to-say-say-something/</link>
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		<title>why words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[no idea, what to say, said sponge, all words seem to be lost. i had them all laid out, nicely arranged last night, in categories. replies, remarks, questions, answers, comments, small talk, chatter, jokes. all that, you name it. and now, all gone. don&#8217;t know what to say. what about memos, said breadroll, are they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/why-words/</link>
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		<title>something gives nothing the end of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and we are sure, said sponge, that it came to nothing? Absolutely nothing? breadroll said nothing. i take that as a witty comment, said sponge. doesn&#8217;t really add to the topic. so nothing it is. that&#8217;s something. at least we are certain an outcome, a result, something to show with with a precise certainty. for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/11/something-gives-nothing-the-end-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>some things happen before and others after</title>
		<description><![CDATA[whenever sack wanted to be a bag he ended up looking like a satchel. there those who cannot, for whatever reason, tell a sachet from a satchel, but they tend not to frequent the places of sack&#8217;s bag impersonation. hence no-one ever said sack looked like a sachet when he wanted to be a bag. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/10/some-things-happen-before-and-others-after/</link>
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		<title>safety in certainty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[if anything we should get going soon. we should, soon. we&#8217;ve been around an age and a bit. but we probably won&#8217;t get moving this time. it was worth mentioning though, it&#8217;ll be too easy a way out. way to easy. we&#8217;ll stick around for a while until it&#8217;s too late to leave in grace. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/10/safety-in-certainty/</link>
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		<title>movement of sponge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[shall we go. said sponge. we can&#8217;t, said breadroll. that&#8217;s right, said sponge, i just wanted to see if you remembered. i do. you do, exactly. we don&#8217;t have to sit still though. no. we can do a few things. a thing or two.  exactly. we should carefully plan our next step. think it through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/10/movement-of-sponge/</link>
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		<title>a person may have a task or another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[train people have closed the shutters. they are having tea. train people have apologised for any inconvenience caused and the train was cancelled due to poor rail conditions. there won&#8217;t be another one for a while but it&#8217;ll arrive shortly. the doing of any thing in accordance with an authorisation under the train people act [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annabloom.net/spongism/2010/08/a-person-may-have-a-task/</link>
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