His bibliography is impressive, but big chunks of undergraduate reading sit undigested in his references to, say, Marx's theory of commodity fetishism or to his application of Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" to the SoCal look.
By a further irony, Sahl's later preoccupation with the Warren report, chunks of which he read out as part of his act, led to a perhaps understandable fall in his bookings.
But it's a fine line between short, pithy sentences and the "See Spot run" school of prose, and large chunks of the book read as though written with a short, stubby crayon.
It was during one of those lonely chunks of life when reading takes on a new importance, and I found a quite unexpected friend in that rather dark and worrisome tale.
And in your rise to popularity, you've trained too many of us to think that brevity is the only virtue of good writing, that content should only be delivered in ever-decreasing chunks of text, that reading should not require our full attention, should not be challenging.
And so, for a sizeable chunk of my reading life, novels provided pretty much all the nutrition and flavour I needed.
This came only a few minutes after a narrator took time to read chunks of script over clips from the best adapted screenplay nominees.
Larger chunks of raw data are read and sent to the dedicated computing nodes at once, significantly improving the performance.
In a blog entry about their findings the researchers said the "serious vulnerability" allowed anyone to read chunks of memory in servers supposedly protected with the flawed version of OpenSSL.
The core additional feature is optical character recognition (OCR) — meaning that instead of uploading and sharing ugly-looking (and hard to read) chunks of raw page text, i.e. in their original photo form, Postepic users can now lift the words off the page, capturing and editing the text and its visual presentation by choosing from a selection of fonts and backgrounds.
