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Scribble Orca is on page 17 of 58 of Experimental Fiction Now
“That the purport of [Lethem’s] themes don’t go much beyond surface satire is in its favour, as we aren’t subjected to...the tedium the exploration of “ideas” in fiction usually entails.” A limiting view of innovation/exploration/new ways of seeing the old. The ‘novel of ideas’ de-emphasises character (let alone plot), which Green acknowledges as motive for writers attempting to push the envelope.
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Experimental Fiction Now

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Scribble Orca is on page 13 of 58 of Experimental Fiction Now
We all inhabit such language-worlds, ways or thinking that determine our interaction with the “outside” world, except that, caught as we are in these linguistic and syntactical webs, there really is no outside....such webs...blanch our words of most of their vigor, leaving on edgeless, etiolated husks.
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Experimental Fiction Now

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Scribble Orca is on page 11 of 58 of Experimental Fiction Now
metafiction and postmodernism are not synonymous [the former] has its roots in the fiction of Beckett and Borges, or...to trace it to its earliest manifestations in fiction, Cervantes and Laurence Sterne.
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Experimental Fiction Now

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Scribble Orca is on page 8 of 58 of Experimental Fiction Now
Realism in any form thwarted by the introduction of metafiction, but Green discards Joyce et al (disruptors who failed to dislodge realism).
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Experimental Fiction Now

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Scribble Orca is on page 4 of 58 of Experimental Fiction Now
Nice (useful) discussion - agreement - that experimental is a term that is somewhat loaded. Adventurous or innovative has a broader appeal - precisely because "experiment" is hypothesis testing. Ars is performance - not a dress rehearsal.
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Experimental Fiction Now

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Scribble Orca is on page 2 of 205 of Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume Two: Gilbert Adair
Nicolas Tredell: If the surname, rhyming with Astair and debonair, seems to suggest an assured performer, it is also a homophone of 'dare'...these elements are active in Adair's novels...he is the postmodernist par excellence, the maestro of style
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Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume Two: Gilbert Adair

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Scribble Orca is on page 18 of 210 of The Middlemen: A Satire
It was impossible not to get on with Jim, Ted would say, he was so affadaptable, and euphoric to the point, sometimes, of imbecility, perhaps as a result of graduating in Business English and Human Relations in a School of Management run on American lines.
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The Middlemen: A Satire

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Scribble Orca is on page 225 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
Speaker, is this minister content to sit and do nothing while the people of this Province are beaten, burned, robbed, raped, and killed in her sight? Does she want to be a Minister of Justice or a chamberlain in the court of misrule?
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 197 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
From: Clerk
To: Director
Due to today's sudden call of the election which caught everyone by surprise you are able now to focus attention on the style book..it is anticipated it will be completed in time for the First Session of the next Assembly..there will be some resistance to change, however as you've already dealt with the transcribers, two editors should be so much easier to reconcile.
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 152 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
M1:As far as the government mechanisms, regulations, stipulations, policies and philosophies go, government assembles these and takes crucial decisions..due to a minister's recommendations arising from intra/interdepartmental consultations and practices, shaping policies so that these adhere to the essentials outlined in general.
M2:Clarify the rationale here?
M1:I don't personally have a rationale for anything--
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 139 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
Member: Your performance is disgraceful.
Members: Hear hear! Oh oh!
Chair: Order please! Order please! I ask all members to remember where they are.
Member: I catch the minister out he attacks me! [Place] wouldn't stand a chance-
Members: Oh oh!
Chair: Order please! The Chair is interested in hearing-
Member: Thank you Chair, the noise in the House drowns out my good points.
Member: I haven't heard one yet.
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 121 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
F: Hansard
T: Clerk
..staff have worked an amount of overtime this session & are curious to know about remuneration..
F: Clerk
T: Hansard
A decision on overtime has been reached..as of this week and retroactive to 1st Sept, no pay for overtime hours, instead time off at time and a half..Hansard has not transcribed the extra 35 hours of debate, could you advise when..lastly Hansard is invited to the Xmas party
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 114 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
T: Clerk
F: Speaker
I've avoided speaking to the Director...it was the right thing to do, but being right isn't the important thing. What's done can't go unpunished...The Director used the shield of Hansard as a sword against us...An admirable principle but still not the right thing to do...advisable to not make things easy for Hansard if they are looking for anything...as a lesson [to the House] it failed.
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 147 of 180 of The Languages of Love
The true humour of life, Julia thought, should illuminate, not shut out, its essential melancholy, its macabre elements, and its fleeting moments of unbelievable elation.
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The Languages of Love

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Scribble Orca is on page 94 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
Attn: Hansard Staff From: Director
Due to recent critical comments in the House concerning the use of (inaudible), also because of questions put to me, it is my decision today's Hansard will be transcribed differently. Transcribers are not to edit anything out except coughing & laughter. If a member repeats a word, phrase, sentence two or more times, makes a mistake and corrects it, transcribe it EXACTLY do not fix.
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 83 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
..be listening to my speech because it's going to be the best...the best because it's going to be the shortest...the best because there is the least to it...the Leader believes that he is the best speaker because he is pontificating all day quoting Hamlet...he is too conceited to admit his pompousness...too bad he never suffers shortness of breath...she is the most useless thing over there, like that old joke...
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 79 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
From:Clerk
To:Speaker
I instructed the Hansard Director to remove the offending bread machine. Chamber is not Hansard staff kitchen and they aren't meant to treat the workplace as home. In a few days the matter will not be as fresh in their minds.
From:Speaker
To:Clerk
I'm glad the machine is gone because it created a noticeable smell. Let the Director be mollified by what looks like an apology--keep staff quiet
Feb 06, 2014 06:24PM Add a comment
Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 63 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
"The economic conditions make it unfeasible, Speaker, for additional staff to be hired. The Province is frangible, subject to a shaky influx of finances...the over-extension of personnel is necessary,...doing the equivalent duties with a slightly different focus through a markedly singular answering module pointed in a new direction...we're doing something about it, we hope to announce what by the end of the year."
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Verbatim: A Novel

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Scribble Orca is on page 51 of 297 of Verbatim: A Novel
Speaker, this govt. has always optionalised where possible to provide a variety of outlets or accessing means to answers for social problems, and in this open-ended attitude certain possible scenarios may be used or realised or positivised in a manner ensuring a beneficial outcome. Govt. reacts to the Panel affirmatively and my remarks concerning the proposed measures need little elaboration.

*Explosive laughter*
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Verbatim: A Novel

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I JUST TALKED TO NELLY KAPLAN!!!!!!
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Scribble Orca is on page 140 of 180 of The Languages of Love
“Literary cliques,” said Desmond in his dirge-worthy voice, “were invented after the disappearance of bear-baiting.”
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The Languages of Love

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For a GeneRal Revolution stop posting review in the review box and post in comment threads with a line of text. Friends can still like, but the link between CONTENT and review is broken - you own your own content again - marketing data money etc is based on reviews not comments. Here's my first: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Scribble Orca is on page 123 of 434 of Aurorarama (The Mysteries of New Venice, #1)
He rambled on. Between narcoleptic fits, Gabriel vaguely heard, as a hum, Mugrabin’s story as it unrolled its slimy meanderings. As was to be expected from a man with a supposedly long habit of clandestinity and false identity, his outpouring soon took on the proportions of a flood.
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Aurorarama (The Mysteries of New Venice, #1)

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Scribble Orca is on page 105 of 434 of Aurorarama (The Mysteries of New Venice, #1)
...the Midway was a poetic hodgepodge of architectural styles, but with an overall cheapness that made it more Fairground than Fairyland. Through dreary days or dazzling nights, it catered almost nonstop to all kinds of questionable tastes in mass entertainment. Panoramas, dioramas, oloramas, cycloramas, mareoramas, myrioramas, and panopticons took the spectators through all kinds of famous monuments and places...
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Aurorarama (The Mysteries of New Venice, #1)

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The Solution To All Your Intelligence Problems: http://www.youtube.com/embed/z9pD_UK6vGU
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Scribble Orca is 34% done with Anonimo veneziano
Lui perde la voglia di gridare. Certo che non lo ama. Come potrebbe amare, lei, un uomo simile. Sta con lui per onesta convenienza, diciamo, e può anche essere che la figlia sia nata per una convenienza altrettanto onesta. Lei ha il dono di rendere onesto tutto ciò che fa, ma lui non si sente più d’aggredirla, per questo, visto che l’onestà non le risparmia certo giuste dosi di umiliazione e sofferenza.
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