Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> At 11:13 AM 3/29/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> >As a former professional indexer, I gotta say, that produces a crap
> >index.
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> One of the best indexes I ever read was a short
> story in the form of an index without a
> corresponding text. It's by J.G. Ballard (of course):
/This is not the same thing, but Hugh Kenner once suggested that an epic could be regarded as an index of sorts -- I think to the range of social & political positions possible within a given culture.
Carrol