Why NOT "A screaming comes across the sky"?

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Fri Sep 1 15:00:11 CDT 2006


I have a little book of "Anansi" stories from Jamaica, written in
Jamaican dialect (kind of a parallel to Bre'r Rabbit).  There's a
last-line tag that recurs often: "Jack Mondory, I don't choose none."

I've never been able to find out what it signifies, but it has a ring to it.

On 9/1/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From William Faulkner, The Wild Palms (1939) ...
>
> "Women? ---t!"
>
> --- Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/27/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
> > > What about the importance of last lines? Nobody
> > ever talks about
> > > these.
> >
> >
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/11/20/bohensher.xml
> >
> >
> http://lowebrow.blogspot.com/2006/08/last-lines-of-novel.html
> >
> >
> http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Literature/Famous-Last-Lines-15011.html
> >
> > -A. A.
> >
>
>
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