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Quotation of the Day for March 5, 2015The previous evening, I ate dinner at Jungle Jim's restaurant [in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador]. Everyone had looked up at me when I entered, a sort of ripple traveling through the room, heads lifting, necks turning, only to subside as I sat down at one of the tables. The walls were clad in bamboo, there were a few plastic palms strewn about and some of the dishes had jungle-related names.... Everyone in the place, except the waiter, was fat, some of them so fat that I kept having to look at them. I had never seen people that fat before. The strange thing was that none of them looked as if they were trying to hide their enormous girth; quite the opposite, several people were wearing tight T-shirts with their big bellies sticking out proudly." - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Norwegian writer, from the article "My Saga, Part 1: Karl Ove Knausgaard Travels Through North America". His comments caused some controversy in Newfoundland and Labrador. [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/magazine/karl-ove-knausgaard-travels-through-america.html] Submitted by: Rob Wood Mar. 4, 2015  |
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