Metrognomic Tales

Metrognomic Tales

Betty McKenzie-Tubb

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Ginninderra Press
Año de edición:
2020
ISBN:
9781761090233
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Metrognomic Tales - a collection of nineteen short humorous essays - has nothing to do with metronomes. The metro refers to the omnibus system in Hobart. The gnome refers to my lack of height. It is also a literary term, which is nice to know. My literary friends will know of course that it is a ’short pithy statement of a general truth - thus, a maxim or aphorism’ (J.A. Cuddon, A Dictionary of Literary Terms).

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