Word: odder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barthelme's settings are even odder than the characters who inhabit them. Barthelme writes about a country named Paraguay. It is not in South America; it is a neverland where everybody has the same fingerprints and sexual intercourse occurs only when the temperature is between 66° and 69° Fahrenheit...
Among the odder jobs in the U.S. these days is one held by a man in northern Colorado who spends hours following a pronghorn antelope, watching it feed, and then whispering into a tape recorder. Absurd? Hardly. By such surveillance, ecologists are learning the animal's precise relationship to its environment-the grasslands of the American West. In time, the habits of the antelope and countless other creatures will be stored in the data banks of computers. Scientists will then be able to ask a computer what really happens when man changes the grasslands environment by farming, building roads...