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	<title>News from the Towler Institute</title>
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		<title>Tales from the Disaster Zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Towler
So we&#8217;re cut off. Vallico Sotto is isolated from the rest of humanity by the biggest damned landslide you ever saw. See this hundred-foot-deep three-hundred-foot-wide mile-long hole? That was a road I walked over just the day before.

It all began with the snow, see. They cancelled the school bus because of the crappy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barganews.com/blogs/towler/2010/01/04/tales-from-the-disaster-zone/</link>
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		<title>Sammy and the Eagle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Towler
My girl&#8217;s not famous. But that&#8217;s got to be the world&#8217;s fault and not hers. I reckon that if she&#8217;d been around in Renaissance times, when art was art and skill spoke for itself, posh rich guys with commissions would have buzzed around her like bees around a flower and she might have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barganews.com/blogs/towler/2008/04/10/sammy-and-the-eagle/</link>
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		<title>Bronze Hermaphrodites and the Fat Boy Filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Towler
I don&#8217;t remember all that much from English lessons in school. I recall that you shouldn&#8217;t use very or a lot or exclamation marks in creative writing and that repetition of words in too close proximity is a serious crime against style. I recall snatches of Shakespeare and William Golding. I recall Mr. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barganews.com/blogs/towler/2007/12/14/bronze-hermaphrodites-and-the-fat-boy-filter/</link>
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		<title>The Palace of Ismeno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Towler
&#8220;Can you see the carving?&#8221;, I call from the base of the ladder.
My English friend Huw from Benabbio peers over the lip of the cave forty feet up  the cliff and grins. &#8220;I think you should come up here and have a look.&#8221;
Actually, and I apologize for breaking up the flow of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barganews.com/blogs/towler/2007/08/09/the-palace-of-ismeno/</link>
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		<title>First Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Towler
So I&#8217;m standing at La Croce, contemplating all the little houses sprinkled about the Middle Serchio Valley far below. I&#8217;m perched on a rocky platform jutting into space about two-thirds of the way up the sheer front face of Monte Penna and a few miles to the North, smothering the summit of its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barganews.com/blogs/towler/2007/03/19/first-post/</link>
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