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without permission, the first page reads as follows:
    Babar the young king of the elephants
    and his wife Queen Celeste
    have set out in a hot air balloon
    on their honeymoon.
    â€œAu revoir! See you soon!”
    the elephants shout
    as the balloon floats out of sight.
    Babar’s little cousin Arthur
    is still waving his beret.
    Old Cornelius, acting chief of the elephants
    whenever the king’s away, thinks:
    â€œLet’s hope they don’t have an accident!”
    93.11.8
    Appropriations
    Because Acadian French is replete with old words and archaic expressions, it is perhaps the strong and often insidious presence of English that lends Chiac its particular character, and especially the clearly English pronunciation of these words. Someone from France can say they’ve put their car in the parquigne without a second thought, but an Acadian would feel like a showoff pronouncing it that way. Acadians quite naturally say “parking” exactly as they’ve heard it hundreds of times from the mouths of the Anglophones that surround them.
    We are dealing here with a musical, rhythmic, and aesthetic rupture. Often this mix of two languages is unnoticed, but equally often it offends the ear and defies understanding. It’s all a question of balance. For example, take the phrase “ je vas aouère besoin d’un troque ou d’un vãn pour haler mon botte ennewé (Least ways, I’ll be needin’ me some body’s truck or van to haul me boat).” Here at least the sentence seems to maintain a consistent sonic register. On the other hand, a vague menace lurks beneath the surface of the sentence: “ si que je sw Ä© tch la l Ä© ght bãck õn pis que la maison ẽxplode, expecte pas d’aouère ẽver ãgain d’autres outils pour Father’s Day (if I goes to switch on de light and de whole house blows up, don’t you expect no more o’ dem tools fer Fadder’s Day).”
    94.30.7
    Chiac
    Find out if there are bloodlines linking Terry Thibodeau and the Francis Thibaudeau who designed the first recognized classification of typographical styles in 1921.
    95.68.1
    Projects
    â€œTo start wid, ee got aggressive like, den after a bit ee started wot dey calls panic attacks. After dat, ’twas a great big gaffer of a belly ache, so bad ee tot he’d got appendicitis. His wife drives ’im to de hospital in de middle of de night, and all. Sure, but de doctors couldn’t find nuttin’. ’Til dey figured ’twas on account of ’is wife was preggies. The boy ’ad all de same side effects: worrying, belly ache, a burnin’ rage to defend ’is kind, de whole kid an’ kaboodle. Well, de doc asks ’im, did ee gain some weight lately, and sure enuf, ee’d took on five pounds. Dat was it den, ee had to be preggies, too. Ee was gettin’ bigger jus’ like ’is wife, even doh ee wasn’t eatin’ no more dan before. Pretty warped, eh?”
    96.15.12
    Unidentified Monologues
    The word character when referring to a letter involves more than simply the sign. It also designates the environment of the letter, i.e., the spaces on either side and between the lines, as well as its relationship to its neighbours. The disposition on the same page of characters of different typefaces, sizes and other specifications will create, or not, depending on the typesetter’s talent, a particular desired effect, which is what the art of typography is all about.
    97.10.10
    Typography
    Terry had nevertheless taken the trouble to modify one or two of Aragon’s phrases to avoid traumatising the children. His own modesty of course played a part in this. In “The Stranger,” to avoid any suggestion of incest — after all, he’d dedicated the song to Marianne — he changed the words to place dragonflies on her dress and butterflies in her hair, which helped to transform the original meaning of