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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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* A manual for typographers published in 1917 acknowledged that there are many beautiful forms of the ampersand, yet it forbade their use in "ordinary book work." Extraordinary books are another matter. Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction. |
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
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The three sad eyes of the ellipses...by Gary Barwinfor Craig ConleyThe three sad eyes of the ellipses. Something is lost. Three islands. Small songs of in a sea that prefers to forget the land. The mouth opens and begins to speak; there is nothing that can be said. One world followed by another and then another. Tiny black specks at the end of the galaxy. A three frame animation where nothing appears to happen, though perhaps down on the miniscule surface, there are different kinds of silences, memories, things forgotten or left. The trailing off, the continuing on. Small black stones in the river of speech. Three tunnels waiting for the three trains of past, present, and somewhere in between. Dots lost and drifting from i’s, j’s, or umlauts, floating between words in the cloudbound grammar above the teleological cities of the sentence. Notes from a song with neither pitch nor rhythm. The dark matter music between things. Three brother molecules in a subatomic folktale, though it is unclear which is the youngest, most foolish, most likely to wed the princess. An echo of the full stop at the end of the sentence. Things end, but their ripples mark the page with their tiny fingerprints. Here I am, though what I was is forgotten, disappeared, or unclear. I grip the cliff of the page, holding on until you get here ready to imagine what I might have been.
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Paul Dean writes:
Brilliant!
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
it! In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a
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Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? |
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Though prima facie the opposite of highbrow, lowbrow is actually a corruption of Lord Loughborough (Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn), notorious for being so dull that he caused dullness in others. ---
And I thought the word "lowbrow" derived from the name of a beer!
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier |
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Which credit card is funnier: Visa or MasterCard?
Clue: This is according to literary humorist Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
Answer: MasterCard. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Personal correspondence, Aug. 25, 2007. Jonathan adds:
"And what a triumph for "MasterCard" to be even funnier than a word with an "ee" sound in it! "MasterCard" sounds like someone has dropped an empty corrugated* box down a flight of stairs.
*Funnier word than "cardboard."
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
it! In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a
narrative, inviting the reader to “connect the dots.” Learn more about Annotated Ellipses at Amazon.com. |
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier |
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Which windy phenomenon is funnier: a hat blowing off or an umbrella turning inside out?
Clue: This is according to Fordham University’s Thought magazine
Answer: an umbrella. “An umbrella turning inside out is funnier than a hat blowing off because an umbrella is made to be opened, to change its shape when its owner wills.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Fordham University, Thought (Spring 1952), p. 59
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
it! In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a
narrative, inviting the reader to “connect the dots.” Learn more about Annotated Ellipses at Amazon.com. |
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* A manual for typographers published in 1917 acknowledged that there are many beautiful forms of the ampersand, yet it forbade their use in "ordinary book work." Extraordinary books are another matter. Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction. |
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
it! In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a
narrative, inviting the reader to “connect the dots.” Learn more about Annotated Ellipses at Amazon.com. |
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier |
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Who are funnier: superstitious atheists or superstitious Catholics?
Clue: This is according to Catholic World magazine
Answer: Superstitious atheists (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Paulist Fathers, Catholic World, vol. 123 (1926), p. 840
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"The & represents life and what comes after." —visual artist Iain Baxter&, who legally added the & to his name (Thanks, Gary Barwin!)
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
it! In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a
narrative, inviting the reader to “connect the dots.” Learn more about Annotated Ellipses at Amazon.com. |
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
it! In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a
narrative, inviting the reader to “connect the dots.” Learn more about Annotated Ellipses at Amazon.com. |
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