In the most successful pieces, the invented form reads primarily as a pleasing abstraction.
"Whatever our imagination could call forth was enacted in the land around us -- all fairy tales, all adventures we invented or read about or heard about, all of it happened there, and only there.
It is hard to know, without mastering the copious biographical literature that has grown up around the James family, what Tóibín has invented; my reading of the novel — not a fast read — was further slowed by frequent comparison of this fictional version with Edel's and Fred Kaplan's biographies.
** It is hard to know, without mastering the copious biographical literature that has grown up around the James family, what Tóibín has invented; my reading of the novel — not a fast read — was further slowed by frequent comparison of this fictional version with Edel's and Fred Kaplan's biographies.
A few years later, "Kurzweil burst into the National Federation of the Blind's offices in Washington, D.C., and said he had invented a reading machine," recalled Jim Gashel, a former NFB employee who currently heads business development at KNFB Reader.
In those days, Google's algorithms were still maturing, which left the door wide open for fly-by-night digital marketing companies to invent creative (read: unethical) ways to serve their clients.
Following the pattern of a chess-knight's move--a straight hop followed by a diagonal--the book skips from apartment to apartment contemplating the tenants, their furniture, the contents of their drawers and their dreams, what has happened or will happen to each one, or to a relative or to someone they once knew, or will invent, or read about.
To attend a 49ers media session in the days leading up to Super Bowl XLVII was to slip into a parallel universe in which Kaepernick himself had invented the read-option.
Do things people did before iPods were even invented such as read a book, take a walk, or play a sport's game.
It can even read invented languages like Esperanto and Interlingua, but sorry -- no Klingon.
