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Surveying Situations in Which Language Contact Arises

Chapters Have Been Recast and Expanded and a Third of the Text is New

Were the Disciples As Peace-Loving As It is Traditionally Assumed

Soon You'll Be Inventing Your Own Characters and Placing Them in Stylish Poses and Stirring Action Scenes

Specimen Days Surveying Situations in Which LanguageFrom the Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of 'The Hours' Comes a New Thrilling and Thought Provoking Masterpiece. Specimen Days is a Novel Made Up of Three Linked Visionary Narratives About the Relationship Between Man and Machine. the First Narrative, a Ghost Story Set at the Height of the Industrial Revolution, Tells the Story of Man Eating Machines. an Ecstatic Boy, Barely Embodied in the Physical World, Speaks in the Voice of the Great Visionary Poet