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initiated as a letter — and as a character by all the initiated, except for the specialists — is composed of more parts than the serif. These include the stem (vertical stroke), the bar (horizontal stroke), the bowl (a curved stroke that creates an enclosed space in the character), a stroke (oblique straight or curved line), and the ascender (the part of the lowercase letter that extends above the x-height). The serif is a line crossing the main strokes of a character, for example at the base of the stem.
    79.10.8
    Typography
    Even Ludmilla could not believe it:
    â€œI can’t understand their logic. They published Marx after all; why not Freud? Obviously I’m missing something. Unless . . .”
    And she plunged into a new search, navigating like Ulysses in the Odyssey , sailing from one site to another, as though she knew the virtual network of publishing like the back of her hand.
    80.8.4
    Didot Books
    In addition to typeface and size, the look of a character varies according to its value, i.e., the amount of ink, also known as its weight, its orientation — upright, slanted, italic — and its colour.
    81.10.9
    Typography
    â€œCan you tell me how come I’ve so much trouble saying je vais meaning ‘I’m going someplace,’ instead of je vas , like ‘I’s goin’ der?’”
    â€œWell, dat’s on account of the economy of language. Vas is shorter dan vais. ”
    !!
    . . .
    82.31.5
    Questions with Answers
    â€œWell, I’ll be! At last, an answer wot makes sense!”
    Lacan’s matheme of “the discourse of the hysteric”

    83.11.11.
    Appropriations
    Carmen and Josse had wasted little time looking for a name for their bar. The Babar seemed the obvious choice. No one could come up with a good reason not to use it, although there were doubts.
    â€œWot if yer not supposed to use dat name? Like if someone was to call der bar Charlie Brown, don’t you tink pretty soon dey’d be gettin’ sued?”
    â€œDat may be in de States. I doubts de French’d come after us. Mostly dey doesn’t even know we exist, and dem dat does have got lots better tings to do den bodder wid a wee bar some place out in the wilds of Canada.”
    84.104.2
    Worries
    In addition to English and French, Scrabble is played in Greek, Arab, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, German, Polish, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Flemish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Turkish, Greek Cypriot, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Russian, Anglo-Chinese, Anglo-Japanese, Malay, and Braille. Obviously, the number of tiles and the letter values vary from one language to another.
    85.112.1
    Languages
    Terry learned a great deal merely from browsing La Pléiade’s web site: to be published by this, arguably the most prestigious, publisher in the world, amounts to a kind of consecration (when der’s a bit o’ real gold on de cover, you knows dey isn’t foolin’ around) — few writers have gained entry to La Pléiade during their lifetimes (Gracq? in me whole life, I never heard dat name) — founded in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin and André Gide (hurrah! at last a fellow I heard of) — bought by Gallimard (naturally, dey owns everythin’) — Volume III of Aragon’s poetry goes for $130 (Jesus, how many volumes does dat boy got?).
    86.8.5
    Didot Books
    In French, the tiles, those small wooden squares on which Scrabble’s letters are printed, are sometimes called caramels. A valuable letter is worth more than four points. A phoney is an unacceptable word. The tiles are mixed in the bag, each player draws seven, which he or she places on the rack, and then tries to make the most of by exploiting the high-value letters, occasionally ending up with a phoney.
    87.4.6
    Scrabble
    Some time later, Josse burst into Carmen and Terry’s place in a state of great excitement. She was hiding something behind