Re: MLA on electronic sources

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:43:32PM -0400, m e g h a n wrote:

> >Way back in the old days, I vaguely recall double
> >brackets being used in Europe to indicate quotation marks:
> >
> > The private detective spat and said, <<Don't lie to me>>
> > in a menacing whisper.
> >
> >Though I have no books at hand to check this, and I could be completely
> >wrong yet again; please, anyone who has better information, correct me!
>
> Way back in the old days? I was in Europe in 2000, and the books and
> magazines I picked up there all used << instead of "

Ah, see: I've been cutting back on outlandish book purchases, the
way some people cut back on the sauce. So, it's been a while since
I've bought a European book. (Well, this summer I bought a U.S.
novel in Iceland, but it had been set from U.S. plates directly,
with no Europeanization of the text or anything else. The only thing
different was that it was bound in a Eurojacket [a word coined but
moments ago, it refers to a European paperback jacket glued around
guts of the published text, which is itself held together at the spine
by a thick layer of glue; God forbid anybody should publish a book with
sewn signatures and other features that mark a well-made book! If
they do it here, it nearly always pushes the price into the
stratosphere], but aside from that it was just as if I'd bought it in
a U.S. bookshop.)

> Meghan (the vegan)

If you WANT to rhyme "Meghan" with "vegan," then I can't resist taking
it to the next step....

Oh, Meghan, the vegan,
went off to the store.
In the aisles, they said,
she cried out:
"Flesh -- no more!"

And the sheep were happy,
and the fish made merry,
and the veal knew they'd
never be another meal.
Then the cows, oh the cows,
who can say what they feel?

Though down in the section
where the soybeans slept,
all the lentils
ground their teeth,
and the kidney beans wept.

But Meghan, the vegan,
came merrily home,
with the greens in her arms,
and a fresh Tofutti cone.

(... said Tim the vegetarian)

(Sorry ... it's been a long week, and my sanity seems to be at
an end. Somebody stop me before I rhyme again!)

--tim

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