INCOMPREHENSIBLE BOOK PRAISE

August 21, 2011
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1. STARKLY INVETERATE 2. A MADDENED ROMP OF PATIENCE 3. A BLESSING OF DISCREET MINDS 4. JOINED IMMUTABLY! 5. TOTALLY SCANNED!!! 6. ONE WORD – SLORP!

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A SENTENCE BY e. e. cummings

August 20, 2011

I looked into six eyes which sat at a desk. In ‘The Enormous Room’, an account of his weird Kafkaesque Orwellian three months spent in a wretched French prison at the end of World War One, e practices playing about with words.

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CARTOON FRIDAY 116

August 19, 2011

“This court hereby finds you guilty as charged. You’re free to go, of course, but do try somehow to stop your constant robbing of things.”

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L. FRANK BAUM KWIZ ANSWER

August 18, 2011

One smart camper knew the correct answer. Yes, L. Frank Baum sent every word he wrote about Oz to Enrico Caruso for approval before daring to deliver a completed manuscript to his publisher, The Reilly & Lee Company of Chicago.

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THE L. FRANK BAUM KWIZ

August 17, 2011
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L. Frank Baum: a. wrote all of his Oz books with a pencil dipped in honey. b. wrote all of his Oz books blindfolded and balanced on a high wire. c. wrote all of his Oz books in a combination of Sanskrit and Inuit before working them out in Spanish, Finnish and finally, English. d. […]

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TIME OUT FOR PRETTY

August 16, 2011

Study this intently for a minimum of 20 seconds and feel refreshed.

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UNPUBLISHABLE EPIC NOVELS

August 15, 2011

1. Rotundity, Wherefore Art Thou? 2. The Singing Roman 3. A Fistful of Scandinavia 4. Jelly: A Saga of the Kitchen 5. Which of This is to be All True in the Harvest of Many Quills

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PRE-CODE MOVIE TRAILER

August 14, 2011

Mr. and Mrs. America, hold on to your hats. Here come Ernest Hemingway and Ginger Rogers starring in a gender-bending rags to riches tale of the depression set in pre-industrial meso-America. Watch Ernie dance and sing his way into your heart. See Ginger outrun, outfight, and outspit legions of Aztec warriors. Never before has there […]

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A SENTENCE BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER

August 13, 2011

They always commenced bellowing in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten. Whitening hem. Good one. Writers of fiction throughout the ages have had to deal with dawn. Somebody, not me, should compile a whole sheaf of breaking dawn prose and nail it to the door of […]

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CARTOON FRIDAY 115

August 12, 2011

“It’s time for us, the shy two, To say a fond good-bye to, You and hope you liked the sho-oh-oh, Good night.”

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