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...effects. The lioness jumps out of a tree--"gurum!"--and the ostrich chicks run away--"pamdal"--but the lioness, yearning for children even if they have feathers, corrals the chicks and purrs, "Irtil-irtil-irtil." A hyena tries to help the mother ostrich, then slinks away, "Pasa, pasa, pasa." "Nnnn," groans the rightful mother, when suddenly...Quirky illustrations by Yumi Heo are full of gurum, pamdal and lots...
Even in these works the singing was clean and in tune. But the sustained "nnnn" at the end of each Amen was objectionable...
...biographer, Jeffrey shares the mania for list making that afflicts everyone from Joyce to Susan Sontag. There are catalogues of Edwin's first utterances ("nnnn" for complaining, "kkkk" for giggling and "chff" - "an early version of Jeffrey?"); the 54 books Edwin owned at age two. There are also bull's-eye descriptions of the exquisite boredom of kindergarten, and a fine malevolent parody of children's picture books called The Lonely Island ("Sometimes rain came to the island...but then it went away...The island dreamed "of an ocean with many islands...The island woke...
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