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The world is not, whatever your English teachers say, not a stage, and Juliet is not the rising sun. She is just a girl Romeo wants to get into bed.  But nearly every English teacher I have ever had, at every level, has given me some version of this spiel:  We read fiction, we learn literature because good writing illuminates the truth of our world, the truth of ourselves, in a way that the everyday does not and cannot always.

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Interesting blog posts about AI here.

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Chill Jazz Piano features sparse rhythms and melodic lines that appeal to a general audience, as well as jazz fans. Chill Jazz Piano has been a part of every era and almost every school of jazz throughout jazz history. If you are interested in playing jazz piano you can learn from the master's music and you can take lessons right on the internet. Or you can use this website to discover jazz songs everyone can enjoy.

A recently discovered map of Middle-earth annotated by JRR Tolkien reveals The Lord of the Rings author’s observation that Hobbiton is on the same latitude as Oxford, and implies that the Italian city of Ravenna could be the inspiration behind the fictional city of Minas Tirith.