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GRISLY QUOTE: "Using the blade like a paring knife, I slice through a pinky-finger-sized filament...
...made a web of interconnecting lives come together,” Quinn said of Solano. “The filament was poetry...
Maybe so, but when you correct certain problems in the postmodern novel--its cartoonish characters, its repetitive paranoia and absorption in Big Patterns--you get a better book. The Corrections does not "solve" the mystery of family life, but it renders its mysteries with the fine filament and moral nuance they require. There are already an impressive 90,000 copies in print. While that's not quite John Grisham territory, Franzen has so far made more than a million dollars. This could be another reason why he's feeling optimistic about the literary novel these days. He may be right...
...beach taken from unexpected angles by Shannon Stackhouse '00 (including "Untitled," the black-and-white print shown to the right), the layout of the works seemed to be somewhat haphazard, taking away from their individual effects. However, the free sushi and a strong performance by the undergraduate band Filament attracted many leaving the VES thesis exhibition
Edison is commonly called the inventor of the light bulb. In truth, he and his co-workers accomplished far more than that. In 1879 they created an incandescent lamp with a carbonized filament that would burn for 40 hours, but a working laboratory model was only the first step. How could they make this device illuminate the world? For this they would need a host of devices, including generators, motors, junction boxes, safety fuses and underground conductors, many of which did not exist. Amazingly, only three years later Edison opened the first commercial electric station on Pearl Street in lower...