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Despite her non-interest in fashion, Daria agreed to review the notable fashions of 1998 for an [[off-canon canon]] piece in ''People'' magazine. [http://www.outpost-daria.com/media_art16.html] Likewise, Daria agreed to disclose her "[[Daria Morgendorffer's Greatest Retail Regret|Greatest Retail Regret]]" to a fashion website in 2011. |
Despite her non-interest in fashion, Daria agreed to review the notable fashions of 1998 for an [[off-canon canon]] piece in ''People'' magazine. [http://www.outpost-daria.com/media_art16.html] Likewise, Daria agreed to disclose her "[[Daria Morgendorffer's Greatest Retail Regret|Greatest Retail Regret]]" to a fashion website in 2011. |
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==Daria's reading material== |
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Books we've seen Daria reading include: |
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* As a child, she read George Orwell, including ''Animal Farm'', and ''Black Beauty'' ("[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", "[[Camp Fear]]", "[[Boxing Daria]]") |
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* ''Moby Dick'' and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov ''The Brothers Karamazov''] in "[[The Big House]]". |
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* ''Catch-22'' ("[[Quinn the Brain]]") |
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* Poe's ''The Telltale Heart'' and Joseph Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'' ("[[Gifted]]") |
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* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Garden-Brooks-Hansen/dp/1573225630 The Chess Garden]'' ("[[Through a Lens Darkly]]") |
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* Beat Generation poem ''Howl'' ("[[The Old and the Beautiful]]") |
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago ''The Gulag Archipelago'' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn] ("[[It Happened One Nut]]") |
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* Jean-Paul Sartre's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness ''Being and Nothingness''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel) ''Nausea''] ("[[Lane Miserables]]") |
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* ''The Prince'' and novels by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karina Anna Karina] ("[[Fire!]]") |
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome ''Ethan Frome''], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Business ''Fifth Business''] by Robertson Davies and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journal_of_the_Plague_Year ''A Journal of the Plague Year''] in IIFY? |
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* Cormac McCarthy's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian ''Blood Meridian''] ("Camp Fear") |
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* Thomas Mann's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice ''Death in Venice''] ("[[One J at a Time]]") |
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She also refers to Dante's ''Divine Comedy'' and the works of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James Henry James] in IIFY and stories by Jane Austen in "[[Write Where It Hurts]]"; and owns a copy of ''The Iliad'' in "The Big House". For class assignments, she reads Henry David Thoreau's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden ''Walden''] ("[[This Year's Model]]"), ''Death of a Salesman'' ("Quinn the Brain"), ''Romeo and Juliet'' ("[[The New Kid]]"), and John Gardner's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Moral_Fiction ''On Moral Fiction''] ("Write Where It Hurts"). |
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If it's old, morbid, or esoteric, Daria will read the hell out of it. |
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==Daria's writing== |
==Daria's writing== |
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