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Thanks so much to all the readers and commenters, both regulars and one-time-only chimer-inners, who made this blog such a joy to do, week after week--I've loved hearing what everybody has to say, and your observations and perspectives have made reading 52 a lot more fun for me.

Week 52: Outside Time Without Extension Douglas Wolk 2007

Thanks so much to all the readers and commenters, both regulars and one-time-only chimer-inners, who made this blog such a joy to do, week after week--I've loved hearing what everybody has to say, and your observations and perspectives have made reading 52 a lot more fun for me.

Archive 2007-05-01 Douglas Wolk 2007

Few people now alive have heard the sound of a chimer forest except on old recordings.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

It was the estimated number of chimer trees multiplied by some abstract figures.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

It can't climb, but it's about the only critter with strong enough teeth to crack a chimer nut.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

More important, the major trees were an astonishing fifty-percent chimer.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

And he knew that only one thing could produce such an over -, powering wealth of sound-a chimer tree forest.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

The chimer tree, a mature specimen of which would fetch perhaps a hundred thousand credits.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

He'd heard recordings taken from the famed chimer quartet in Geneva Garden.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

Katie ran her hand up and down the bole of a young chimer that grew almost into the cabinet, then moved her hands over the dials and switches within.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977