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...though we appreciate it." Adds Novelist Georges Perec: "We reject the noble image of literature as a divine inspiration. In our view, language is a kind of putty that we can shape." Among the stranger shapes issuing from the OuLiPo factory are palindromes-words or statements that read identically backward and forward. "Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts," is elementary to an OuLiPo member. Perec has produced Ou LiPo's longest palindrome: a 5,000-letter treatise-on palindromes. Other OuLiPoian inventions are equally astonishing. Poet Jean Lescure...
...reasons for stopping at this wide spot in the road and listening well, even if Jimmy had been born in Savannah and was not their pride. He clearly is and they all call him Jimmy, to your face and his-no reverence yet-as they sketch in his family backward from him. For if you are quiet and let them tell what they need to tell, not what you think you want, then the story is family, unendingly...
...script is Vidal's is a matter of clamorous dispute. Vidal apparently saw Caligula as a kind of all-Roman boy gone wrong; the producers made him a monster from the beginning. Vidal says that most of the dialogue is his but complains that "they are playing scenes backward," reversing his meanings...
...solve this problem, the last three years have brought us the "fish scale" bottom which, as its name implies, is a large tractive area (usually the entire ski bottom) resembling fish scales that allow the ski to slide forward but not backward...
Charlie's Angels: the show is yet another human sacrifice to the almighty god Nielsen and a giant step backward for womankind...