Slog - Comments on The Jane Chord http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_jane_chord Over on his blog, Terry Teachout (theater critic for the Wall Street Journal) reminded me about the Jane Chord: The Jane Chord, to which Bill Buckley introduced us years ago, is a concept originally promulgated by Hugh Kenner. The idea is that if you make a two-word sentence out of the first and last words of a book, it will tell you something revealing about the book in question. Or not: the Jane Chord of Pride and Prejudice is It/them. But every once in a while you run across a Jane Chord so resonant that it makes the room shiver--the... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:13:33 -0800 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:20:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by boxofbirds "Brothels of Nevada [a photo book]: Visits imperative."

Awesome.

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And has there ever been a more annoying literary convention/device than the "______shire" crap in P&P? If you can't use the real name, make one up! Makes the story very hard to read, as there are no proper nouns to which a reader can anchor themselves. Not that there is anything happening anyhow....

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I need a more interesting game.

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Perl in a Nutshell: Computer stream.

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This/injuction.

...eh. Back to studying.

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Eh concious

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At Slaves.

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This ends.

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The Catcher in the Rye If everybody

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E.M. Forester; A Room With a View: The Mediterranean.

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"I / hell".

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I like this music

Where can I download for free?

And what are your ways of getting new music?
Thanks

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