Are you referring to one of those libraries with those clumsy paper and ink
Book Thingies? To demonstrate how far behind the times they are, if you
examine the needlessly long summary of Moby-Dick that they provide below,
you will see that there is not one single "you" or "are" that could be
properly replaced with U and R. About all that could be corrected is the
word "for," which is correctly spelled "4". And since there R only about 12
or so actual stories, this summary could have been combined with "Jaws,"
streamlining both of them, and making the Cliff Notes half the length and
more suitable for an ipod.
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From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
johnrobmoore
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 9:27 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Should I laugh or cry?
You may have a point I was going to check out Moby Dick at the library but
then I saw this and realized I already know the good stuff. Why RTFM when
you can get the cliff notes? Who has time for "...layers of literary
symbolism..." these days? Sounds like something that would take too much
rendering. :
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick is Herman Melville's American classic in which Ishmael details his
adventure as a whaler under the leadership of Captain Ahab. Aboard The
Pequod, Ishmael tells of Ahab's maniacal search for the leviathan that took
his leg — the sperm whale Moby Dick. Melville combines a deep knowledge of
whaling with layers of literary symbolism as the peg-legged captain's
single-minded hunt leads to his doom.
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editing in real time by scrubbing the timeline.... looking for the parts
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