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 Post subject: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:35 pm 
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Can anyone point me to an accurate link recording how long Dr Suess' s book was? (I don't dare look furtive in a bookstore.)


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:54 pm 
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If I were home instead of slaving at this rag, I coulda looked it up. It's the only book on my nightstand.


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:00 am 
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Just to clarify, for those writing reviews there are a number of conflicting versions circulating about word length of the book and how many words it had that were not used more than once.<p>Enough to make you as testy as a copyeditor in a room full of flacks.


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:25 am 
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Good lord, how many words that were not used more than once? What on earth are you editing?


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:35 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Paul Wiggins:
Can anyone point me to an accurate link recording how long Dr Suess' s book was? (I don't dare look furtive in a bookstore.)<hr></blockquote><p>"The Cat in the Hat" is 1,702 words long, but it uses only two hundred and twenty different words. Louis Menand in the New Yorker.<p>[ March 30, 2004: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:37 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Jackie:
Good lord, how many words that were not used more than once? What on earth are you editing?<hr></blockquote>
No names, no pack drill, but he won't mind me sharing with you that it's a review in which the reporter has used the Net as a source.
With fishy consequences.


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:41 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Paul Wiggins:

With fishy consequences.
<hr></blockquote><p>One fish, two fish, red fish.......sorry.


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:47 am 
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Contributor, a man of great grace, came back with this ........ Sorry to go on about it but I have become fascinated about the cat in the hat and so this is, really truly, the last word on the subject... [from the New Yorker]<p>"The Cat in the Hat" is 1,702 words long, but
it uses only two hundred and twenty different words. And (as the cat says) that is not all. Geisel put the whole thing into rhymed anapestic
dimeter. It was a tour de force, and it killed Dick and Jane.<p>Which is all very intersting you see because the New Yorker's account differs from a) copy filed b) Mike Myers being inteviewed on the matter.<p>When in doubt cut it out. Still not sure, cut some more!


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 Post subject: Re: Cat in the Hat rhyme time
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:48 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Paul Wiggins:

Which is all very intersting you see because the New Yorker's account differs from a) copy filed b) Mike Myers being inteviewed on the matter.<p>
<hr></blockquote><p>The New Yorker is good at numbers like that, but you're right to cut what cannot be confirmed. Certainly, Mike Myers is not a credible source of such information.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:02 pm 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp:
Certainly, Mike Myers is not a credible source of such information.<hr></blockquote><p>God, no. Look at what a catastrophe that movie was. (So I've heard. I refuse to watch.)


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