"Amy Guskin"  wrote in message
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> >> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:25:17 -0500, Methuselah Jones wrote
> (in article ):
>

> >
> > This book had everything wrong with it that could be wrong with a book.
> > The writing was awkward and amateurish, to start with. The Pope is
> > mentioned in passing; his name is George Ringo (Get it? John Paul,
George
> > Ringo? Get it?) The editing was atrocious. The cover art didn't appear
to
> > have anything to do with the story. There were numerous typesetting
> > errors, with transposed lines, transposed paragraphs and even whole
pages
> > out of place. Then, about two thirds of the way through the book, there
> > was a huge ink splotch on one page. The whole thing was a real piece of
> > work. <<
>
> That sounds like it has to have been something self-published, or from a
> vanity press.  I mean, major publishers can allow some doozies through,
but
> that sounds like it hardly qualifies as a real book!
>
Perhaps that was an experiment in "free prose" ;-)
Like free verse doesn't have a strict meter or rhyme, "free prose" frees
itself from the constraints of spelling, grammar, and linearity. Comes with
a piece of abstract art (or a Rorschach self-test).

Dennis


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