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In Reply to: RE: Got Bablefish? Nt posted by geoffkait on March 30, 2014 at 06:25:09
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In this case, I don't think so.
The Tower of Babel was not so called because the peoples' speech was confounded; it was called that because the high tower was meant to (symbolize, at least) the approach to El, the Babylonian Sky God... .
One of the martyrs of the Baha'ai faith is called "The Bab," in that he is thought to be the Gate to salvation.
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The quoted review excerpt reads like an "L.A. Noir" parody of Middle Period Jon Valin, back when he was writing mystery novels.
Or perhaps he himself is moonlighting?
JM
I had no idea that he had done that. Thanks.
Jonathan Valin - Wikipedia
Now I much better understand Valin's style and his penchant for the long run-on sentences, complete with parentheses, dashes and various other modes. He can make a paragraph consist of just one sentence.
We all may remember when Charles Hansen took Valin to task over the "powerful cross currents in a tide pool" and his defence. Or maybe not. ;-)
Regards,
Geoff
at least using that moniker.
What ever happened to the NEW Absolute Sound? Wasn't he somehow involved in that fiasco as well?
...I found one of his novels, "The Music Lovers", about a murder mystery with an audio club as a backdrop on a close-out table at a bookstore and bought it.
It didn't make me want to read any more of them.
Sorry, I was snorting.
Mike: Here's the bad news:
That one was far and away the best of the bunch.
JM
> That one was far and away the best of the bunch.
I checked out ssveral of Jonathan Valin's Harry Stoner mystery novels back
in the day. I thought the best was "Life's Work," about an NFL player and
how men who are trained to be professionally violent have difficulty
leaving that violence in the locker room when they go back into the world
outside the stadium.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
...saving the entire set alongside your RCA Shaded Dog LPs?
I think JV would be impressed that you read all of them!
Daniel
"a confused noise, typically that made by a number of voices..." Seems to be an apt enough description of the review. Audiophillia is better off with fewer verbal gymnastics, not more...IMO, of course.
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Never trust an Atom, they Make Up everything!
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