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	pylonpol11
		For an electricity pylon number collector, this is a glorious time to be out and about, but only the really foolish, or those with a great deal of faith in a Met-Office forecast of good weather would leave the day-sack, with waterproofs and extra layers of clothing behind.
		Unfortunately, it is not only pylon enthusiasts who come outdoors in their droves at this time of year.
		Electricity pylons are a constant menace to us paraglider pilots and been responsible for a number of deaths.
	users.tinyonline.co.uk /bigh/bigh/pylonpol11.htm (803 words)

	nov11
		It was fairly obvious that Pylon was harmless, but her father would see green cat hair on the sewing, an enormous food bill, and a monstrosity that he couldn't control.
		Pylon was all too happy to crawl on top of her and let her scratch both his ears at once.
		Pylon was a wonderful comfort, but she remembered that Malek had promised connections.
	home.earthlink.net /~omouse1/novel/nov11.html (1534 words)

	CMT.com : Pylon : Biography
		Pylon's debut single, "Cool," appeared on the dB label in early 1980, earning strong critical notices and emerging as a major underground dance hit; that summer, they issued their debut LP Gyrate, also opening for the B-52's in New York's Central Park.
		Pylon toured regularly leading up to -- and in the wake of -- their sophomore effort, 1983's Chomp, but dissatisfied with the finished LP, and also disheartened by an abortive tour in support of U2, the band dissolved.
		Their posthumous notoriety, in tandem with the impending release of dB's Hits compilation, convinced Pylon to reform in 1988; after opening for R.E.M. on their Green tour, they also recorded a new album, 1990s Chain.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/pylon/bio.jhtml (346 words)

	Neon Survey: Treasure Island
		The pylon is a collection a heavily crafted and sculpted elements, creating a framework for two message cabinets and a marquee banner on either side.
		The main pylon looks to be constructed out pieces of a wrecked ship, with the most commonly seen symbol for a pirate, in the Jolly Roger skull, being the most impactful piece up there.
		Unlike its neighbor to the south the mirage, the Treasure islands theme encompasses the main pylon, with the exception of the pylon in the rear of the property.
	gaming.unlv.edu /v_museum/neon_survey/surveys/treasure_island.html (951 words)

	Pylon: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Pylon [+]'s debut single, "Cool," appeared on the dB label in early 1980, earning strong critical notices and emerging as a major underground dance hit; that summer, they issued their debut LP Gyrate [+], also opening for the B-52's in New York's Central Park.
		Pylon [+] toured regularly leading up to -- and in the wake of -- their sophomore effort, 1983's Chomp [+], but dissatisfied with the finished LP, and also disheartened by an abortive tour in support of U2, the band dissolved.
		Their posthumous notoriety, in tandem with the impending release of dB's Hits [+] compilation, convinced Pylon [+] to reform in 1988; after opening for R.E.M. on their Green [+] tour, they also recorded a new album, 1990s Chain [+].
	www.music.com /group/pylon/1 (319 words)

	Flagpole Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At the stroke of 13, George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 opens to reveal a harsh look at a cold and systematic future for mankind where every step and every thought is controlled and precisely monitored.
		Pylon, it seemed, was a thing of the past until Bewley got the strange inclination to give it another go in 2003.
		Their soothing Southern accents and easy-going personalities bare the traits of a Pylon that's much more at ease with its situation and very excited to be playing.
	www.fairmountfair.com /flagpole/weekly/articles.php?fp=4864 (1939 words)

	nov20
		Pylon seemed very pleased with himself as he sat cleaning his paws.
		Pylon effectively cleared the streets and the market while not a single person stared at Malek.
		Pylon trotted happily along peering into the different stalls, pausing to grab a cured ham from the butcher's.
	home.earthlink.net /~omouse1/novel/nov20.html (2473 words)

	Library of America: William Faulkner: Novels 1930-1935
		Sanctuary is a problematic novel in the Faulkner canon, partly because his introduction to it for its 1932 appearance in the Modern Library stresses its deliberate sensationalism and exploitation of "current trends" in literature for financial gain.
		Whether he revised the novel because he thought it was "terrible," as he claimed, or if there were perhaps other reasons for the revision, and whether he improved the novel in revision, are questions scholars are just now beginning to investigate.
		Extant documents relevant to the editing of Pylon are the typescript setting copy at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library and the corrected galleys at the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas.
	www.loa.org /volume.jsp?RequestID=42§ion=notes (2199 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 1105
		Though I honor their collective front, and believe in my heart that Curtis Crowe is the great musician here, I know for damn sure that the one who makes me murmur "Oh yeah, that one" five seconds into each of these twelve tracks is Randall Bewley.
		Their low registers, deliberate silences, and inexorably unmechanical beat all feed a muscular musical solidity with no real parallels--10 years after, the only band that sounds remotely similar is the Gang of Four, who are frantically neurasthenic by comparison.
		Of course, the Gof4 hoped to change the world, where Pylon mean only to transcend it, which is only possible till the music's over.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist.php?id=1105&name=Pylon (355 words)

	Film and Fiction Fusion
		Fascinated by the death-defying pilots who race their planes in circles around the pylons, Hudson falls in with an unorthodox family: a grim pilot named Roger Shumann (Robert Stack), his beautiful wife Laverne (Dorothy Malone), their steady mechanic Jiggs (Jack Carson), and Laverne's young son Jack (Chris Olsen), whose paternity is unclear.
		The reporter is hopelessly smashed for most of the novel, which lurches around behind him; Hudson, in contrast, comes off as a purposeful drunk, a well-meaning meddler who advances the plot.
		But the laughs are there mostly for those who came in to laugh, and the irony is evident for anyone who cares to look, as when Hudson delivers his drunken monologue about love, death, and the flying machine to a bunch of colleagues in the newsroom.
	webdelsol.com /SolPix/sp-faulkner.htm (1006 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 00038281
		We counted the pylons and took photographs of the barbed-wire guards on their legs.
		After the pylon my parents had counseling, just as I did, and the counselor told them they had to be understanding and supportive.
		It was their responsibility to help me put all that behind me and make a fresh start, not blame myself and feel guilty all the time.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random044/00038281.html (1496 words)

	William Faulkner items from Randall House (805) 963-1909 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A difficult novel at times, the novel tells the story of the McCaslin family, beginning with the family patriarch Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, and his many descendants, both fl and white.
		It is a noteworthy exploration of race, particularly as it is compounded with miscegenation, and is concerned also with the vanishing wilderness.
		Faulkner intended the stories as a novel and the words "and Other Stories" were dropped from the trade edition.
	www.randallhouserarebooks.com /lists/faulkner.html (463 words)

	William Faulkner. Biography and complete works
		The novel, which features the rape and kidnaping of an Ole Miss coed, Temple Drake, by a sinister bootlegger named Popeye, shocked and horrified readers, particularly in Oxford; published in February 1931, Sanctuary would be Faulkner's best-selling novel until The Wild Palms was published in 1939.
		In March 1935, he published the non-Yoknapatawpha novel Pylon, which was inspired apparently by the death of Captain Merle Nelson during an air show on February 14, 1934, at the inauguration of an airport in New Orleans.
		A kind of "prequel" to Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha novel, The Unvanquished tells the earlier history of the Sartoris family during and immediately after the Civil War, focusing especially on Bayard Sartoris, son of the legendary Colonel John Sartoris who, like Faulkner's real-life great-grandfather, was gunned down in the street by a former business partner.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/faulkner.htm (1796 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Among the many novels of William Faulkner, Pylon is less well known today than some of the author's more critically acclaimed works such as The Sound and the Fury, Intruder in the Dust and The Reivers (a 1962 Pulitzer Price winner).
		Yet, the novel, dismissed by most critics of its era as a tawdry melodrama, is a deeply personal work, reflecting Faulkner's keen interest in flying while including autobiographical details from his own life.
		For years, various Hollywood studios toyed with the idea of making a film of Pylon but it was producer Albert Zugsmith who finally convinced Universal-International to buy the rights, even though the studio brass were unfamiliar with the Faulkner novel and thought the title referred to a snake.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,90496\|90497\|\|,00.html (1022 words)

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		It consists of a cantilever section extending nine metres over the harbour basin, a pylon and a moveable section split in the middle.
		However, the key element of the bridge is a novel mechanism which operates the moveable section.
		The pylon is moved to open the bridge.
	www.designlabor.com /html/bridge.html (955 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The absence of the reporter's name in Pylon has irritated or puzzled readers since the book first saw light.' Faulkner is clearly up to something in his refusal to supply the name: he calls too much attention to its peculiarity for us to ignore its absence.
		The chapter title is Faulkner's explicit admonition to see the reporter in Prufrockian terms, but his implicit hints are almost as obvious when he introduces him as an "etherised patient" (20), tells us of human voices drowning the reporter (244), or has the reporter self-pityingly speak of Laverne's failure to "understand" him (245).
		Faulkner whose heavy debts to Joyce in Pylon are almost as obvious as the allusions to Eliot - may also have had the word play of Ulysses in mind when he came up with his Pylon riddle.
	www.tnstate.edu /JORDAN/faulkner.html (1414 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Grasshopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Because of the accident on the pylon, Clodagh has been banished to the city, to a dingy basement flat below the large house of one of her parents’ friends.
		Some, I suppose, may be disappointed with the fact that it does veer off in a slightly unexpected direction and become a book entirely different from what you might at first have suspected, but others should simply appreciate the author’s ability to take her story in unexpected, original directions.
		It creates in the readers a deep longing to even briefly experience the bizarre world of these characters, to live as freely as they do in their eccentric way, while all the while they want to distance themselves because it’s clear something dreadful is going to happen.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140293027 (1544 words)

	William Faulkner
		Pylon, a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines the bonds of loyalty and desire among three men and a woman.
		Intruder in the Dust, a detective novel, is a compassionate story of a fl man on trial and the growing moral awareness of a southern white boy.
		Faulkner's last novel, The Reivers: A Reminiscence (1962), distinctly mellower and more elegiac than his earlier work, is a picaresque adventure that evokes the world of childhood with a final burst of comic energy.
	www.owp.us /WilliamFaulkner.asp (8130 words)

	DIRECTORY TO ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS AT ABBY'S BOOKS
		The bulk of this "novel," however, attests to a rare creative faculty capable of parodying much of what would become the novelistic conventions of the 18th and 19th centuries, while at the same time broadening and exploring territory that has been rediscovered only in the 20th-century.
		This novel by actor Dirk Bogarde is both a delightful comedy of manners and an incisive study of people under pressure.
		The novel also marks the first appearance of some of Trollope's greatest characters: Lady Laura, who marries for money and lives to regret it; her insanely jealous husband, Robert Kennedy; the exotic Madame Max; and the hotheaded, fox-hunting Lord Chiltern.
	cornellpubs.com /Templates/Fiction.htm (7675 words)

	William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the novel, however, the funeral is for a young fl man, an outcast who fled Mississippi for the North, returning home only in death.
		By 1945 he had published thirteen novels, many of them destined to become classics of American literature, but not one of them remained in print in the United States.
		Even the lush, idiosyncratic prose style of Faulkner’s stories and novels could be seen as a monument to American individuality and freedom of expression.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature29/faulkner.html (1711 words)

	WFotW ~ Pylon: COMMENTARY
		Novels, 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon
		One of Faulkner’s few novels not set in Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois.
		An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage à trois of flyers on the barnstorming circuit.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/n-pyln.html (101 words)

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	March 02, 2000: Word, Anatomy of a Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Unlike the first musical album or the first solo exhibit of a painter, it bursts forth into the world unannounced, hoping to fill a void heretofore unknown to its audience.
		He attempts to hide the bleeding from Greta "cleaning himself with old paint rags he later threw into the canal." But Greta is not fooled: "But she knew.
		This kind of sensual and patient writing is all too rare in our present crop of young writers, and is one of the most admirable qualities of The Danish Girl.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/03_02_00/word.html (1039 words)

	The Slow Empire
		Civilised is a relative term, however; for example, on Shakrath the tattoos which identify a man’s Soul when he is reborn in a new body at the end of his journey are branded onto his face without the aid of anaesthetic.
		They all flee as the malfunctioning Pylon discharges galvanistic energy into the assembled members of the Order, and screaming faces bubble up on their skin before the Pylon explodes and kills them all.
		This is the first novel to suggest that the creatures which inhabit the Time Vortex are under threat from some new power, a plot thread which resurfaces in Anachrophobia and is fully explained in Sometime Never...
	www.drwhoguide.com /whobbc47.htm (3694 words)

	Literary Review: Reader's file: the fascist archives - Italian publisher's reader's reports on foreign books from ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Right after it was published, this novel brought wide acclaim throughout the English speaking world to William Faulkner, who had been, until now, practically an unknown.
		This is one of the warmest and most original novels from one of America's most original writers, who Medusa readers got to know through Pylon, and its topic, the problem of race, is very topical in the Italian nation today.
		In Light in August (which is 100% an American novel despite the fact that there are no skyscrapers, movie directors, or gangsters in it) Faulkner takes on a problem that has real and often tragic currency in the new world: the problem, shall we say, of fl blood.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2078/is_3_45/ai_87210935/pg_5 (1526 words)

	STAR WARS: Warships of the Empire: Catalogue
		It is rare for a major naval operation described in the novels to appear in later comics except when there is a direct adaptation.
		The novel states that the communications ship is one of the larger Imperial warships present, which means that it's much more massive than the one-mile destroyers, but probably smaller than the dreadnought Executor.
		novel describes the big communications ship as being one of the larger Imperial vessels, whereas Avenger was one of the smallest Imperial vessels present.
	www.theforce.net /swtc/dagger.html (14462 words)

	BattleReports.com
		What I have posted now is merely the draft of the real novel that has expanded and grown from the post here.
		True, you don't have a 400-page novel in which to develop your characters, but it's possible to make the people realistic enough that readers care about what happens to them.
		Well, I wouldn't really want to compare the Pheonix chronicles to this because one is SC based and the other is not.
	www.battlereports.com /comments.php?reportnum=4380 (1994 words)

	Toledo's New Signature Structure, September/October 2002 Public Roads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The test is to simulate the fatigue performance of the curved portion of a cable in the pylon.
		Major concerns about the new cradle design included fatigue due to the bending stress induced in the strands near the exit point from the cradle and potential damage to strand epoxy coating due to fretting action.
		The block represents a segment of the pylon structure at the cradle pipe on the bridge.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/02sep/07.htm (2400 words)

	MWP Newsletter for April 25-May 1, 2003
		1945: In the novel Clifford’s Blues, by John A. Williams, the diary kept by the title character, who is a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, ends, the same day that the camp was liberated by American forces.
		The novel is the coming-of-age story of a seven-year old farm boy, Luke Chandler, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a house that has never been painted.
		The film adaptation of the novel was filmed in large measure in the towns of Lepanto and Clarkedale, Arkansas, about 30 miles from Black Oak, where Grisham grew up, on a farm much like the one depicted in the novel.
	www.olemiss.edu /mwp/news/nl/2003/0425.html (1576 words)

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