Syllables

By Elision I mean the cutting off one or more Letters from a. Word, whereby two Syllables come to be contracted into one, or the taking away an entire Syllable; Now when in a Word of more than two Syllables, which is accented upon the last save two, any of the Liquids L, M, N, or R, happen to be between two Vowels, that which preceedes the Liquid admits of an Elision.

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A music producer friend soon supplied him with 72 different mp3s, but it was "Ghosts of Syllables" that really jumped out.

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Her most celebrated stories, including "Seventeen Syllables" and "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara," reflect the preoccupations and tensions of the Japanese immigrants and offspring who survived that era.

Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011

Her 1988 collection, "Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories," was hailed by an Amerasia Journal reviewer as "a literary time capsule - an intimate slice of Japanese American history."

Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011

Her most celebrated stories, including "Seventeen Syllables" and "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara," reflect the preoccupations and tensions of the Japanese immigrants and offspring who survived that era.

Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011

Check out the video to "Ghosts of Syllables" below, and keep a lookout for more creative "stuff" to come from Javier Grillo-Marxuach.

Abe Schwartz: Javier Grillo-Marxuach Makes Canon 5D Magic Abe Schwartz 2011

Mr. Grillo-Marxuach hammers this point home with the "Ghost of Syllables" video embedded below.

Abe Schwartz: Javier Grillo-Marxuach Makes Canon 5D Magic Abe Schwartz 2011

Her 1988 collection, "Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories," was hailed by an Amerasia Journal reviewer as "a literary time capsule - an intimate slice of Japanese American history."

Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011

I asked what he was up to, and he told me he was directing his first music video for the song "Ghost of Syllables" by the band Admiral Radley.

Abe Schwartz: Javier Grillo-Marxuach Makes Canon 5D Magic Abe Schwartz 2011

She wove intercultural conflicts and bonds into "Seventeen Syllables" 1949, in which a nisei girl's blooming romance with a Mexican American classmate offers an achingly innocent counterpoint to her mother's arranged marriage.

Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011