Wednesday, January 15, 2014

A gerund is a non-finite verb or verbal and is often referred to as a verbal noun.  A gerund does the work of a noun in a sentence.  It is the name of an activity.  Find examples of a gerund as a subject, an object and an indirect object at  http://www.english-language-grammar-guide.com/gerund.html 

A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.  Simple, little conjunctions (FANBOYS For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So)  are called coordinating conjunctions.  A subordinating conjunction (sometimes called a dependent word or subordinator) comes at the beginning of a Subordinate (or Dependent) Clause and establishes the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence.  It also turns the clause into something that depends on the rest of the sentence for its meaning. See examples, explanations and list of common subordinating conjunctions at http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

Find how to tell gerunds, participles and adjectives apart--how to tell prepositions from subordinating conjunctions--and much more at http://page.macmillan.com/qdt/parts-of-speech 

In reviewing a raft of re-issued novels and a book of selections of prose and drama by B. S. Johnson, Colin Burrow explains that through the unstructured form of The Unfortunates Johnson was endeavouring to evoke his experiences after the death of his friend Tony Tillinghast from cancer at the age of twenty-nine.  The Unfortunates has 27 sections bound as separate pamphlets in a box.  One section is named "First" and one is named "Last".  The rest can be read in any order.  In a passing remark, Burrow suggests that this novel, which Johnson described as a "tangible metaphor for randomness and the nature of cancer", was "surely a librarian's worst nightmare", adding that the immediate question that might arise for a librarian is, "does each fascicule need its own shelf-mark?"  http://prolepsis-ap.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-librarian-deweyan-pragmatist-peircean.html 

Prolepsis (rhetoric), a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection and then immediately answers it  OR Flashforward, in storytelling, an interjected scene that represent events in the future.  See other uses at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolepsis 

Analepsis  A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached.  Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory.  In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events that will occur in the future.  Both flashback and flashforward are used to create suspense in a story, develop a character or structuring the narration. In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to before the narrative started.   Analepsis was used extensively by author Ford Madox Ford.  Also by poet, author, historian and mythologist Robert Graves, as a source of inspiration.  The creator of the flashback technique in cinema was D.W. Griffith.  One of the earliest examples is a single shot of a mother rocking a cradle, repeated many times representing the passing of generations, in his film Intolerance (1916).  Flashbacks were first employed during the sound era in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 film City Streets, but were rare until about 1939 when, in William Wyler's Wuthering Heights as in Emily Brontë's original novel, the housekeeper Ellen narrates the main story to overnight visitor Mr. Lockwood, who has witnessed Heathcliff's frantic pursuit of what is apparently a ghost.  One of the most famous examples of non-chronological flashback is in the Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane (1941).  The protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, dies at the beginning, uttering the word Rosebud.  The remainder of the film is framed by a reporter's interviewing Kane's friends and associates, in a futile effort to discover what the word meant to Kane.  As the interviews proceed, pieces of Kane's life unfold in flashback, but not always chronologically. Welles' use of such unconventional flashbacks was thought to have been influenced by William K. Howard's The Power and the Glory, written by Preston Sturges and released in 1933.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback_(narrative)


Frank Lloyd Wright's Pottery House belongs stylistically to his later Usonian work, and exemplifies his dedication to creating architecture that fits with the land and was of the land.  The original design for the Pottery House was commissioned by Lloyd Burlingame in 1928, and was to be sited in El Paso, Texas.  Construction of the original Pottery House was never begun, and the design reverted to Wright.  In 1982, Charles Klotsche, a real estate developer from Wisconsin, purchased the plans from Taliesin Architects and then had TA architect Charles Montooth adapt the plan from its original 2400 ft.² to 4900 ft.².   Construction of the adobe structure was completed in 1984.  This is the only adobe structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  http://www.flw-potteryhouse.com/ 

In 1910, at the age of 43, Frank Lloyd Wright traveled to Europe to present what would become his most beloved collection of structure illustrations:  the Wasmuth Portfolio.  One of these famous drawings was something Wright called "Boathouse for the University of Wisconsin Boat Club."  Twenty years later, the architect included this same boathouse in an international exhibition of eight of his greatest works.  Sadly, it was never constructed.  It remained one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most significant projects that had never come to fruition--until in 2000, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Rowing Boathouse Corporation acquired the rights to the design and raised the $5.4 million needed to realize its construction.  The Boathouse is being operated both as an architectural tourist site and as a working boathouse by the West Side Rowing Club, one of the largest rowing clubs in the United States.  http://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com/buffalo-architecture/wright-legacy/boathouse/ 

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Music legend Bruce Springsteen joined Jimmy Fallon onstage to perform a new version of "Born to Run" featuring lyrics about getting stuck on the George Washington Bridge.  Watch 3:47 video at http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Jimmy-Fallon-Bruce-Springsteen-Chris-Christie-George-Washington-Bridge-Scandal-240234521.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1097  January 15, 2014  On this day in 1967, the first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles, California.  The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.

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