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No, revel's not the right word, because there are great, great picture books that break the rules in service to a Higher Good (that would be Literature); what I mean are books that indulge in stupid rhyming couplets, age or format inappropriateness, preachiness, and lists, lists, lists (Cheryl's parody is hilarious here) that serve only to give the illustrator time and space to indulge him or herself in a series of pretty paintings.
Cheryl? It's Not Just the Manuscripts. Roger Sutton 2007
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No, revel's not the right word, because there are great, great picture books that break the rules in service to a Higher Good (that would be Literature); what I mean are books that indulge in stupid rhyming couplets, age or format inappropriateness, preachiness, and lists, lists, lists (Cheryl's parody is hilarious here) that serve only to give the illustrator time and space to indulge him or herself in a series of pretty paintings.
Archive 2007-03-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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No, revel's not the right word, because there are great, great picture books that break the rules in service to a Higher Good (that would be Literature); what I mean are books that indulge in stupid rhyming couplets, age or format inappropriateness, preachiness, and lists, lists, lists (Cheryl's parody is hilarious here) that serve only to give the illustrator time and space to indulge him or herself in a series of pretty paintings.
Cheryl and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Manuscripts fusenumber8 2007
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Leave to the Stuart's cavalier the revel's blood-red wine
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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Anyone who revel's in pompous grandstanding and in referring to himself in the third person as much as you do, should never be accused of malignant narcissism.
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not that revel's viuews should have any influence here....
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"Thirty casks are nearly done, yet the revel's scarce begun;
The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862
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