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Monday Apr 04, 2005

Love, sic

dentist.jpgDespite the mild pleasure of watching popular dating manuals get ripped apart in the NYTBR, I have to wonder how a Book Review came to spawn a black hole of poesie so large and deep, its essays on love contain phrases like, "But love is not dentistry."


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