ibid:a life by Mark Dunn


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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7048637b-573c-4922-a107-b3f2dd306486/0D145258-3F56-40D9-9154-4EE23A2BDA58/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ibid:_A_Life&oldid=201223470" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ibid:_A_Life&oldid=201223470" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ibid:_A_Life&oldid=201223470"><P><I><B>Ibid: A Life</B></I> is the third <A title="Novel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel">novel</A> by <A title="Mark Dunn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dunn">Mark Dunn</A>, published in <A title="2004" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004">2004</A>. Its form is highly reminiscent of <A title="Vladimir Nabokov" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov">Nabokov's</A> <I><A title="Pale Fire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire">Pale Fire</A></I> in that it consists almost entirely of a set of <A class="mw-redirect" title="Endnote" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endnote">endnotes</A> for a larger (non-existent) <A title="Biography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography">biographical</A> work.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ibid:_A_Life&oldid=201223470"><P>In a series of (fictional) letters exchanged between the author, Mark Dunn, and his editor, it is explained that the only copy of Dunn's excessively and exhaustively researched and documented biography of one Jonathan Blashette - a <A title="Circus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus">circus</A> performer <A title="Congenital disorder" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_disorder">born with three legs</A> who goes on to make a fortune in the <A title="Deodorant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodorant">deodorant</A> business and becomes a famous <A class="mw-redirect" title="Philanthropist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropist">philanthropist</A> - was accidentally knocked into a bathtub and destroyed. Luckily, Dunn had not yet sent along his voluminous endnotes and they survived, so the editor convinces Dunn to make a virtue of necessity and publish the endnotes by themselves. The reader is left to try and ferret out the details of Blashette's life story through the marginal asides and tangents related therein.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0D145258-3F56-40D9-9154-4EE23A2BDA58/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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