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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 17, 2016, 05:26:50 pm ---Well, there's a respite of sorts in the new issue. A story by Annie Proulx!!
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Read it over lunch today. Her punctuation is more standard compared to her Wyoming stories. But then I always had the suspicion that in the writing of her Wyoming stories she was trying to emulate how certain Wyoming people talk.
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm a bit annoyed with myself right now. As usual I have three issues going at once. In something I read in one of them, I came across one of those New Yorker constructions that we've discussed before but that still makes me want to scream. Unfortunately, I didn't mark the article, page, and issue, and now I can't find it again to share the pain. ...
In this case, to begin with, the sentence was nearly as long as a paragraph. And it was one of those that went, "'[Quotation,]' name, [string of at least three long identifiers], said.'
::)
If I can locate the offensive sentence, I'll share it.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 30, 2016, 06:55:34 pm ---I'm a bit annoyed with myself right now. As usual I have three issues going at once. In something I read in one of them, I came across one of those New Yorker constructions that we've discussed before but that still makes me want to scream. Unfortunately, I didn't mark the article, page, and issue, and now I can't find it again to share the pain. ...
In this case, to begin with, the sentence was nearly as long as a paragraph. And it was one of those that went, "'[Quotation,]' name, [string of at least three long identifiers], said.'
::)
If I can locate the offensive sentence, I'll share it.
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Please do!
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm going to skip the fashion-related articles in the March 21 issue. However, I heartily recommend the article in that issue about Kate del Castillo, the telenovela actress who took Sean Penn along with her to visit El Chapo. That one is a humdinger. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
In his movie review (April 4), Anthony Lane describes Batman and Superman as "bulging in all the right places." :laugh:
Would you like to be more specific, Anthony? ;D
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