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A Different Take
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Reflect, ruminate, feel, re-read. Repeat. Review by GuiltlessReading.com Serious synopsis of This Mobius Strip of Ifs by Mathias Freese: In this impressive and varied collection of creative essays, Mathias B. Freese jousts with American culture. A mixture of the author’s reminiscences, insights, observations, and criticism, the book examines the use…
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Brother, can you spare a dime?
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We stayed at the Palmer House in Chicago, with a solid history in the town dating back to a bash attended by Mark Twain. It is situated on Wabash Avenue with a cranky el above the street that covers the Loop and other destinations. The Art Institute of Chicago which…
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The Winnebago Man and Dick Cheney
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In 2010 a documentary was made of Jack Rebney, Winnebago salesman. For years, outtakes from a promotional film for the Winnebago company featuring Jack Rebney as its spokesman had gone viral. Apparently the appeal here was that Jack had a special talent which was his capacity to cathartically curse when he was…
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The Author Reviews His Own Book, This Mobius Strip of Ifs
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After sampling some reviews but far from all, I thought I might offer my own take on my book as a kind of guide to the perplexed. At 71 Freese sets out in these thirty-six essays written over several decades, some fairly recent, some penned in the 80’s and 90s, to…