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...more and more students purchase the Macintosh laptops, the clickety-clack of noisy typing emanating from the machines has attracted the ire of those students who still press pen to paper...
...bird," a gaunt, nervous man with an uncontrollable stutter. Having flunked one of his first-year classes, Keefer is marked out by the teachers as a failure and tortured more than anyone else. His only solace is Johan, a partially tame shark he keeps in a sea-pen not far from his cabin. Schulman attempts to use Jonah as a sort a of underpinning for this section of the novel, bringing Jane, Keefer and Jonah together again and again as a sort of touchpoint by which we can measure Jane's change. As Jane slowly decides on success, she becomes...
...have definitely seen an increase inprofessional shoplifting, as opposed to a studentcoming in and picking up a pen on his way toclass," she adds. "That's surprising because theeconomy is strong right...
...captured in the phrase "forgotten leafy speech," an image which charms with the power of forgotten myth, an alibi against any accusations po-mo linguistic pretension. By recalling sleep, dreams, unrecoverable history (see "About Troy") and the personalities of dumb material objects (see "Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp"), Herbert selects the very topics that demand linguistic self-consciousness, save that topic of genocide and terror which Adorno famously said would make "all lyricafter the holocaust...barbaric...
...Oversized ISBN, Japanese characters and a sterile disposability mark the pen as article of capitalist production. The soul-less pen testifies to imminent apocalypse...