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...parents' handbook and material for first-years were in the final editing stages when the change was announced," Nathans said. "Lots of text in there had to be changed the moment the Radcliffe thing came through...
Some nights, I wish my wife had an e-book, one of those battery-powered gadgets with high-resolution screens that can hold thousands of pages of best-selling text. I have always been a Princess and the Pea kind of sleeper. The slightest noise--even the sound of a page being turned--is enough to make me sit bolt upright, as if a torpedo had just slammed into the powder room. E-books are noiseless. Also, since they are backlit, your bedmate can read them in the dark...
...fact, I found I had more fun with my eBook when I wasn't reading books. A software upgrade released last week allows you to transfer text documents (e-mail, Microsoft Word files and the like) from your computer to your eBook and read them there. It also enables you to upload your own writings to its website, which could someday turn into a novel venue for would-be novelists...
That the tone and diction of Elegy have an almost prosaic feel is not an insult to (NOT READABLE) Thus, Jones' long lines and frequent enjambment aid his devotion to his text and to his images. Well-crafted, careful expressions then carry the rhythm and pulse of the pieces and allow the poems to remain true and real...
...Judy suggests and Tidbit agrees: plunky spunkiness speaks through childish seriousness as planes fly overhead and the storm breaks. We should congratulate Ashbery for such luxuriousness--Girls on the Run is heroically aesthetic. Perhaps tragic, perhaps symbolic, Ashbery's poem benefits from the sheer two-dimensionality that a surrealist text always lends to its texts, delighting the reader at the most critical level of appreciation...