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  NOON: journal of the short poem
It is not that the poems within Noon are merely spare, or that in general the poetic lines are short; overall, the single word or brief poetic phrase is the foreground subject, while the author becomes a nearly anonymous self‑presence.
Noon, taken as a whole is impressive; the journal really does flow from poem to poem; it can be further noted that the disappearance of discursiveness and “author” is neither absolute nor affected, as in some English haiku; rather there is an evident quiet, spacious dialogues with the reader, questioning and penetrating notions of form:
In Noon however, the foregrounding flow of elemental image, and particularly the manner in which the editor has separated poems from authors’ names (at the back), allows the reader to experience a unique poetic journey.
www.iyume.com /research/review/NOON.htm   (751 words)

  
  Jeff Noon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeff Noon (born in 1957 in Droylsden, England) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy.
Prior to his recent relocation (around the year 2000) to Brighton, Noon set most of his stories in some version of his native city of Manchester.
Noon describes Automated Alice as a "trequel" - it is a companion piece of sorts to the famous Lewis Carroll books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeff_Noon   (386 words)

  
 Noon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Noon is the time exactly halfway through the day, written 12:00 in the 24-hour clock and 12:00 pm in the 12-hour clock.
At solar noon, the sun is due south in the Northern Hemisphere, and due north in the Southern Hemisphere.
The sun is directly overhead at solar noon at the equator on the equinoxes ; at Tropic of Cancer (latitude 23½°N) on the vernal solstice in June ; and at Tropic ofCapricorn (23½°S) on the invernal solstice in December.
www.therfcc.org /noon-41569.html   (211 words)

  
 Scriptorium - Jeff Noon
When one takes into account Noon’s rich use of allusion (both to his own works as well as those of Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges), it is not surprising to find that he has managed to create a network of powerful visual motifs.
Noon’s first novels (Vurt, Pollen and Nymphomation) form a story cycle about a Manchester populated by humans and strange hybrid creatures (such as Dogs, Robos and Shadows) whose lives are rooted around the enigmatic Vurt feathers.
Noon writes unmistakably human-sized works: his focus is on the individual, his intent is to engage the contemporary imagination.
www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/noon.html   (858 words)

  
 Pixel Juice - Jeff Noon
Noon is an imaginative and impulsive writer, and he doesn't tether his ideas.
Noon's often meandering novels can lose focus, but the compact short-story form is just right for what he does.
Noon's literary play -- which comes to full fruition in Cobralingus (see our review) -- crops up constantly, from the remixes to many of the stories.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/noonj/pixelj.htm   (1157 words)

  
 High Noon for England | the Daily Mail
For Noon, one of the players chopped at the last-minute from Sir Clive's World Cup-winning squad 18 months ago, proving his worth is everything.
Noon is too diplomatic to acknowledge that support from Andrew, one of Andy Robinson's most vocal critics, is probably more of a hindrance than a help.
Noon is no stranger to dips in form this season.
www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/sport/rugby.html?in_article_id=350181&in_page_id=1780   (915 words)

  
 Cobralingus - Jeff Noon
Noon begins with a variety of texts: passages from Thomas De Quincey, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, the King James Bible (Ecclesiastes), Michael Bracewell, and others.
Noon has a fine ear (and eye), and his texts are uniformly successful.
But it is very much Noon's work (and, one suspects, a great deal of effort went into it), and its success lies with his talents, well-employed in this unusual genre.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/noonj/clingus.htm   (905 words)

  
 Darkness At Noon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Disenchanted with Stalin, he exposed the Moscow show trials in Darkness at Noon (1940), a novel that is intimately informed by the fatalism that Koestler...
Darkness at Noon is the most famous novel by Arthur Koestler.
Published in 1940, tells the tale of a communist, Rubashov, who is imprisoned by his own Soviet government and forced to confess to several imaginary crimes against the state.
www.wikiverse.org /darkness-at-noon   (301 words)

  
 High Noon (1952)
Because High Noon doesn't reveal the American spirit as the Duke wanted to define it, he may truly have felt that it was subversive.
This was an era in which few were willing to stand up for what they believed in due to the enormous pressure to follow the "common thought" of the period, and the comparison between the movie and the reality seems to evoke strong similarities.
High Noon was his last great film, but he also worked in Gone with the Wind, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr.
www.dvdmg.com /highnoon.shtml   (1705 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for noon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
the period of time between midnight and noon, esp. from sunrise to noon: I toiled in the fields from morning till night it was a little after eight in the morning.
The curry king: The Sholto Byrnes Interview; Sir Gulam Noon came to Britain with big ambitions and a fistful of recipes.
Noon out to prove he can land a big catch; England's backline came in for some harsh criticism after the loss to Scotland but the centre who goes fishing to relax aims to put that right in Paris.
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=noon   (730 words)

  
 Online Etymology Dictionary
meridien, from L. meridianus "of noon, southern," from meridies "noon, south," from meridie "at noon," altered by dissimilation from pre-L. *mediei die, loc.
Originally a northern word (referring to the period from Saturday noon to Monday morning); it became general after 1878.
Not to be confused with antiscii "those who live on the same meridian on opposite side of the equator," whose shadows fall at noon in the opposite direction, from Gk.
www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=noon   (572 words)

  
 High Noon - Stranger things CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The High Noon line-up became Young, as vocalist and acoustic rhythm guitar, Mencher on lead, and Smith switching from electric bass to upright bass.
High Noon now has more than enough original material to last the night, and a few of their songs have been covered by other rockabilly bands around the world.
Over the last few years, High Noon has been part of the resurgence of traditional country, not as a retro novelty, but as a viable alternative to the mainstream.
www.nervous.co.uk /reviews/grcd6060.htm   (454 words)

  
 Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory - The Noon coffee shop
At Noon the Blueberry was nice indeed, the staff were friendly, they played some excellent DVDs and music, they would always let me select from their little shelf of glass bongs.
The High Noon was also conveniently located very close to vondelpark, where we were staying, making it too easy to stop there first thing every day for some bong hits and cold fanta before we ventured into the city.
In particular, I was extrememly pleased with the Blueberry at Noon.
www.coffeeshop.freeuk.com /Database/ShopsA/Noon.html   (2934 words)

  
 icNewcastle - Noon has high hopes in fitness fight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
So much so that Noon was walking okay by Saturday night and yesterday, as he prepared to link up with the England squad, he was in a much happier frame of mind than on Friday, when he suffered a bruised thigh in his club's Premiership defeat at Saracens.
Both would be making their RBS Six Nations debuts, although Noon has five caps won on the tour to USA and Canada and in England's World Cup warm-up games.
Noon has been here before, though, and is taking nothing for granted, although it would be a major surprise if he isn't in the starting line-up.
icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk /0200sport/rugby/tm_objectid=15135623&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=noon-has-high-hopes-in-fitness-fight-name_page.html   (868 words)

  
 noon
rederick Noon, according to family legend, was the illegitimate child of a Scottish Laird and one of his servants who took his mother`s maiden name.
Before the turn of the twentieth century she was employed as a "Gaiety Girl", one of a troupe of dancers who performed at London`s variety halls and theatres.
For Bill Noon there is no resting place save his name carved amongst tens of thousand of others on the walls of the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
line.david.free.fr /noon.html   (1451 words)

  
 NIST Time and Frequency FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Noon is neither before or after noon; it is simply noon.
If one is referring not to a specific date, but rather to several days, or days in general, use the terms noon and midnight instead of 12 a.m.
The terms "12 noon" and "12 midnight" are also correct, though redundant.
tf.nist.gov /general/misc.htm   (582 words)

  
 Noon Hill - The Trustees of Reservations
In the nineteenth century, after farmers cleared the forest, the land surrounding the pond was used as pasture, and stone walls were built as enclosures.
Noon Hill is a link in the Bay Circuit Trail.
Noon Hill is across Causeway Street from The Trustees' Shattuck Reservation.
www.thetrustees.org /pages/342_noon_hill.cfm   (412 words)

  
 Jeff Noon, Vurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When I finished reading Jeff Noon's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Vurt on the subway ride into work recently, my reaction was, "ho hum." Vurt had been on my bookshelf for quite a while and many of the reasons I'd let it sit so long proved to be true.
Noon provides no explanation for this transfer, which takes not just the mind but the body across the
I did like Noon's use of chemical rather than technological virtual reality, but here again I felt that his approach was less rigorous than I wanted.
www.rambles.net /noon_vurt.html   (273 words)

  
 Review: High Noon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
And the story can easily be seen as allegorical -a man is turned on by those he called friends and comrades, and comes to see that the most valued principle of the masses is self-preservation.
Cooper plays Marshal Will Kane, and, when High Noon opens, it's a little after 10 o'clock in the morning, and he is being married to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), a woman less than half his age.
High Noon also offered the first high-billed opportunity to Grace Kelly, who would go on to capture an Oscar, the eye of Alfred Hitchcock (she became his favorite female lead), and the hearts of millions (including the Prince of Monaco).
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/high_noon.html   (1560 words)

  
 Northampton Saints - News : Saints sign prop Colin Noon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Noon, currently on suspension, will begin training with the squad in the summer but will not be able to play until September 26.
The 29-year-old, who toured with Scotland on their 2004 summer trip to Australia, was on loan to Rotherham from Leicester Tigers when he received his six-month suspension.
Noon, who weighs in at 17 stone, played 22 games for Rotherham in the 2003/04 season.
www.northamptonsaints.co.uk /32_2837.php   (166 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pollen: Books: Jeff Noon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Noon brings to this sequel the same imaginative flair and gift for wildly mixed imagery that enlivened Vurt.
Still a great book and i recomend it highly just because Noon is an amazing writer and it is worth reading just to see his words leap off the page and swim in your mind.
Jeff Noon writes his books on a continuum, each referencing the others and the author in a witty entanglement.
www.amazon.com /Pollen-Jeff-Noon/dp/0517599902   (1831 words)

  
 CBC Newfoundland and Labrador | Programs | Radio Noon
On Monday December 18, 2006 Radio Noon chatted with Tom and Christine O'Brien of Stephenville about their now famous Christmas home decorations.
Radio Noon wants your photos and thoughts about the state of this province.
Each day we will post both hour one of Radio Noon and our Crosstalk segment here on our web site.The new posting will be available around 4 p.m.on that specific day.Copyright regulations prohibit the posting of music or items that contain music.
www.cbc.ca /radionoonnl   (630 words)

  
 Scriptorium - Jeff Noon
Authors are usually asked to write the backcover blurbs for their books, and in Noon’s case it’s quite evident that many of his ideas have survived into the final version.
Zenith O’Clock is only a character invented by Jeff Noon and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely accidental.
Throughout them all, Jeff Noon delights in the magical possibilities of language, creating a wholly new kind of storytelling.
www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/noon_blurbs.html   (819 words)

  
 noon
The time of day when the Sun crosses the observer's meridian and is at its highest point above the horizon; at this point, the Sun lies due south of an observer in the northern hemisphere and due north of an observer in the southern hemisphere.
The observed crossing of the meridian is known as apparent noon.
To overcome this problem, the mean solar day is defined as the yearly average of the apparent solar day and used to defined a fictitious mean sun, which moves along the celestial equator at a constant rate.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/noon.html   (238 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Cobralingus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Needle is however (in my opinion at least) is twice the book 'Vurt' ever was, sealing Noon's place as one of the most talented and adventurous British writers of the past ten years.
Noon plucks samples from classic literature, cuts in filters or 'gates' such as 'overload', 'ghost' and 'add virus', processes which strip the text to it's bare bones, or pump it up to (and often beyond) breaking point.
Noon mixes in more samples, the periodic table, the shipping forecast, keeping the words and meaning liquid, always extracting, reducing, focusing, distorting, finding new rhythms in the emerging forms, pushing and cutting the text forward, into the next remix.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1899598162   (567 words)

  
 NOON - Definition
hora) the ninth hour, then applied to the church services (called nones) at that hour, the time of which was afterwards changed to noon.
The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/noon   (75 words)

  
 Noon Project Revisited
The Noon Project is an annual Internet event for schools to team up and make their own measurements.
Instruction - Model calculating the Angle, the Distance, and the Circumference of the Earth using the data for AUS and CA, from the Noon Project Revisited Worksheet.
Two schools with email accounts can exchange their noon shadow measurements and latitudes, for any one day, and can still get a close approximation of the circumference of the Earth.
score.kings.k12.ca.us /lessons/noonpr.html   (738 words)

  
 AGS Astronomy: Local Noon
This may even be the reason why the ancient Egypts could build their pyramides so accurately facing North.
The local noon vs eclipse comparison above is expected to give your longitude with a very high accuracy.
If you do not have the time to perform these daytime measurements, never mind, on a long baseline the accuracy is still reasonable, so please do not hesitate to transmit your observations to us.
www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk /as/localnoo.htm   (848 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: High Noon (1952): DVD: Fred Zinnemann,Lloyd Bridges,Larry Blake,Howland Chamberlain,Jr. Lon Chaney,Virginia ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He and his wife argue, and she is determined to leave on the noon train.
Kurosawa said he only shot footage so he could edit and high noon is truly a brilliant example of the power of concise editing.
The high noon dvd is presented in full frame format since the film was not shot in widescreen.
www.amazon.ca /High-Noon-Fred-Zinnemann/dp/B00006JMRE   (2149 words)

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