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How can I summate myself if I do not understand myself? Can anyone really know himself or herself? What does it mean to know yourself? Am I who I think I am or who others think I am or some amalgam that, perhaps, includes who I want to be or what culture has constructed me as being or some other force acting on my life with or without my awareness?

Cold Sassy Tree, Foe, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Cannery Row, The Nothing Man, The Stranger, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Lucky Jim, Of Mice and Men, Brideshead Revisited, The Handmaid's Tale, Speak, Frankenstein, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Apathy and Other Small Victories, The Complete Stories: Flannery O'Connor, The Polysyllabic Spree, A Long Way Down, The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Disgrace, Franny and Zooey, Everyman, Native Son, The Kite Runner, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Teacher Man, The Killer Angels, The Road, Diary of a Bad Year, Ethan Frome, As I Lay Dying, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Life & Times of Michael K, Indignation, A Lesson Before Dying, Revolutionary Road, Serena, The End of the Affair

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Magnolia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life is Beautiful, Adaptation, Lost in Translation, Trainspotting, 21 Grams, House of Sand and Fog, Donnie Darko, The Spanish Prisoner, Jarhead, My Own Private Idaho, Memento, Jackie Brown, Monster's Ball, Punch-Drunk Love, Crash, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Jeux d'enfants, Road to Perdition, Hard Eight, Rushmore, Thank You for Smoking, Reservoir Dogs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gummo, Run Lola Run, Amelie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Julien Donkey-Boy, Clean Shaven, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Knocked Up, Everything Put Together, There Will Be Blood, Sorry Haters, Into the Wild, Things We Lost in the Fire, Snow Angels, All the Real Girls, Trois Couleurs

ER, Quantum Leap, Cheers, Inside the Actors Studio, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, How I Met Your Mother, Gilmore Girls, Sliders

reading, Viva paper towels, long walks, politics, chicken fingers, sports, outdoor activities, hot underwear right out of the dryer, new adventures, autumn Saturday mornings, singing the theme song to "Green Acres," talking to weird people