This is the hypertext link to a story in which every sentence refers to itself.
"Please, ignore this quotation.''
(You are reading a so-called "hat tip" to Phil Straus.)
Goodenough Gismo
- This is the classic children's book, Goodenough Gismo, by Richmond I. Kelsey, published in 1948. Nearly unavailable in libraries and the collector's market, it is posted here with love as an "orphan work" so that it may be seen and appreciated -- and perhaps even republished, as it deserves to be. After you read this book, it won't surprise you to learn that Richmond Irwin Kelsey (1905-1987) was an accomplished artist, or that as Dick Kelsey, he was one of the great Disney art directors, breaking your heart with "Pinocchio," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."
Blogs I love and/or learn from
- A Quiet Evening
- A Sense of Place
- Ablogistan
- After the Future
- Ageless Marketing
- Alarming News
- Alas, a blog
- Ales Rarus
- AliBlog
- All Things Beautiful
- Althouse
- Always Question
- American Digest
- Andrew Sullivan
- Anonymous Liberal
- Augustine's Blog
- Austin Centrist
- Balloon Juice
- BeBeRe
- Belmont Club
- Bending the Rule
- Bird's Eye View
- Bitterroot and Bergamot
- Blogcritics
- Bloggledygook
- Booker Rising
- Brunobaby
- Bull Moose
- Camassia
- CelebrateVida
- Centerfeud
- Centerfield
- Championable
- Changing Places
- Charging RINO
- Chrenkoff
- Christopher Althouse
- Church of the Churchless
- Classical Values
- Code Name Nora
- CommonSenseDesk
- Contained Obsession
- Contemporary Nomad
- Creek Running North
- Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism
- Daniel W. Drezner
- Darvish
- Deafening Silence
- Dean's World
- Diner Wisdom
- Doctor [formerly Medical Mad House]
- Done With Mirrors
- Donklephant
- Dreams Into Lightning
- Dry Bones Dance
- Eclectic Refrigerator
- Eclecticity
- Eide Neurolearning Blog
- entelechy
- Eteraz: States of Islam
- Eve Tushnet
- Experimental Theology
- Explorations
- Falling Awake
- Fluffy Stuffin'
- Fresh Bilge
- G as in Good H as in Happy
- Gene Expression
- Gruntled Center
- Gypsy Scholar
- Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength
- Hey Mr. Gobley!
- Hugo Schwyzer
- Immodest Proposals
- In and Out of Confidence
- Informed Comment
- Instapundit
- Internet Ronin
- Jesus Politics
- Jew Eat Yet?
- Jewish Atheist
- JOHO the Blog
- Jollyblogger
- Jon Swift
- Julie Leung: Seedlings & Sprouts
- Khaki Elephant
- Killing the Buddha
- Kinesis
- Kobayashi Maru
- LaShawn Barber's Corner
- Legal Fiction
- Life Studies
- Lileks
- Mark D. Roberts
- Maverick Views [Alan Stewart Carl]
- mills
- ModerateVoters.org
- MoralCompass
- Mystic Bourgeoisie
- NeoMugwump
- New Wineskins
- News on the March
- News Unfiltered
- Nobody Asked
- Oddman Out
- Oliver Kamm
- One Cosmos
- Out of the Depths
- OxBlog
- Pajama Pundits
- Paul Levy's Plain English
- Pennywit
- Perspective
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Pop Occulture
- Pribek
- qarrtsiluni
- RADICAL MIDDLE
- Random Fate
- Rat's Nest
- Real Physics
- Rendezvous 39
- Restless Mania
- Richard Lawrence Cohen
- Rightwing Nuthouse
- Rodney Welch: The Blog
- Sad American
- Say Anything
- Scheiss Weekly
- Searching for Home
- Seth Chalmer's Blog
- Shot in the Dark
- Sideways Mencken
- Signal + Noise
- Silflay Hraka
- Simply Skimming
- Sippican Cottage
- Sisu
- Social Fiction
- Stay of Execution
- Steve Pavlina: Personal Development
- SteynOnLine
- Stubborn Facts
- Talking Points Memo
- talkingdream
- The Anchoress
- The Armchair Philosopher
- The Beiderbecke Affair
- The Belgravia Dispatch
- The Bit Maelstrom
- The Glittering Eye
- The Gooch On . . .
- The Kitchen Drawer
- The Love Goddess
- The Maternal Optimist
- The Millennium Mouse
- The Misfit
- The Moderate Voice
- The New Moderate
- The Obvious?
- The Purple Center
- The Radical Centrist
- The Reaction
- The Revealer
- The Sciolist
- The Sweepings
- The Truth Laid Bear
- The Uncredible Hallq
- The Volokh Conspiracy
- The Walrus Said
- The way there
- Thoughts of an American Centrist
- Time Goes By (What it's Really Like to Get Older)
- Transparent Eye
- Turkey Peanut Walrus
- UberKuh: The Artistic Atheist
- Velveteen Rabbi
- VIA NEGATIVA
- Vodkapundit
- Waiter Rant
- Wave Maker
- What Is Truth?
- Wheat Think
- Wild Apples
- Winds of Change
- Wittenburg Door
- Wittingshire
- xenogere
- ZanTales
Family
- True Ancestor
- The Boople
- Stereotree
- Stepping Stone
- Staboo Stabella
- She's Crafty
- Raising Up Sunshine
- Nerge Central (WARNING! babypix)
- Headwaters Writing & Design
- Gottlieblog
- FoodPorn.com
- Final Exam
- Falaria's Journal
- Diglossie
- BTR (Born to Rant)
- Benjamin Warren Pearson (WARNING! babypix)
- At College in Pittsburgh, Chicago Girl at Heart
- Ancient Mariner
New on FacTotem, my Natural History Blog
Jacques' Story: Escape From the Gulag
Recent Posts
The Feldenkrais Method®
The AmbivAbortion Rant
Spiritual Nomads
Turning 50
Debating Intelligent Design
- Not Random.
- Evolution: It Gets Interesting Right Out of the Gate!
- "Evolution Through the Lens of Science and Spirit"
- "It was a doctor's duty at the time to know something about stones."
- Darwin, Pro and Con
- "Religion Needs Science . . . and Science Needs Religion"
- ID Dish: Darwinists Gone Wild!
- Science Receives A Benedict-ion
- ID-clare!
- Secular Humanists for Intelligent Design.
- Looking for a "Bright"? Try a Catholic.
- Sweet Reason or Darwinian Dogma?
- Dover Beachhead Makes "War on Christmas" Look Like Grenada.
- Dilbert Rushes In Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Two Key ID Decisions Come Down
- ID at BU: Scott Beats Dembski -- One Centrist's Opinion
- Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oy Vay!
- Are Athletes Evidence of Intelligent Design?
- Intellectual Stalinism in the Scientific Establishment
- Evolution's Roots Are Showing.
- A Religious Objection to Intelligent Design
- Just About the Last Word on Science and Religion
- Bush: Teach Intelligent Design Alongside Evolution
- Thank God -- er, Natural Selection -- for an Open Mind!
- Trading Blows
- Not-So Intelligent Design
- Catholic Church Backing Away from Evolution?
- The Most Powerful ID Essay I've Read
- An Exchange on ID
- Darwin's Challengers Grow a High Brow
- Are Evolutionists Their Own Worst Enemy?
- God and Science? No Problem . . .
- Quantum Theory, Evolution, and Consciousness
- Ratzinger's Opposite Number
- IDTheFuture.com
- From Fish Wars to Star Wars
- ID: Turnabout's fair play
- Challenge to Darwinism Heats Up
- Their eyes are watching god
- Design Debate Continues
- Another site of the ID debate [UPDATED]
- Ever Deeper Into Intelligent Design [UPDATED]
- De-Sign of the Times
- The Design of Intelligence
- Intelligent Design-ers Strike Back
- Serious Challenge to Intelligent Design
- Intelligent Design Makes the Evening News
- Bloggers on Intelligent Design
Best of AmbivaBlog
- Feeling Homeless? Welcome Home.
- Why we love hurricanes
- NYC "Terror" Strike, 9/18/04
- One-eyed "values," left and right
- The true picture: One nation, inextricable
- MERRY CHRISTMAS! SO THERE!
- GOD AND THE TSUNAMI
- Poemscam
- Kabbalah, Shmabbalah: A Jewish "Prayer of Jabez"
- The Blogfather
- An Anthropologist in the Blogosphere
- The Flesh is Willing
- Drenched in Religion
- Selective Darwinism
- Raunchy, Sexy, Bitterly Funny
- Terri and the Whales
- The Inexhaustible Inventiveness of Culture (Krump Dancing) - Readers' Choice!
- Staying Together: For the Kids, the Friends, the Landscape
- The Wounded Angel
- Penicullus Tardus
- Curious
- Dang!
- "The Jew is the first postmodernist, the Jew is the first globalist."
- Duel. (With Seconds.) Over The Meaning of Marriage and Homosexuality.
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Now What Was That All About?
This is genius. The genius of this story is how the author kept it up. How the author kept it up is amazing. Amazing because of more than the sentence fragments. The sentence fragments are especially an act of genius.
****
Amba, I just love coming here. I never know what I'll find, but I always know it'll be good.
Posted by: reader_iam | January 17, 2006 at 10:32 PM
I just had to write to say how amusing this is.
Posted by: Charlie (Colorado) | January 18, 2006 at 11:59 AM
and maybe that's why Billy is strangling his mother, because of sentences just like this one, which have no discernible goals or perspicuous purpose and just end up anywhere, even in mid
lol.
that was pleasingly demented.
Posted by: Tom Strong | January 18, 2006 at 02:31 PM