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The City Man

2006· article· en· W299148289 sur OpenAlex

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Notice bibliographique

RevueChicago Review · 2006
Typearticle
Langueen
DomaineArts and Humanities
ThématiqueShort Stories in Global Literature
Établissements canadiensnon disponible
Organismes subventionnairesnon disponible
Mots-clésSentenceNarrativeHistoryLinguisticsLiteratureArtPhilosophy
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Résumé

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Howard Akler, The City Man. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2005. 154pp. $14.95 Because Chicago Review is a serious publication, given to sober criticism and averse to fawning blurbs, I feel bound to reveal straight away that The City Man contains a simile that strains my objectivity. Toronto, 1934: pickpocket Mona Kantor, trailing a mark through Union Station, watches back of suckers head and finds His yarmulke askew like a large lazy eye. Consider yourself warned. In games of word association, utterance of word is answered inevitably, instantaneously, with cry Rhythm! This claim does not seem so far-fetched in world of The City Man, a spare, episodic first novel from Howard Akler. Pickpockets, hustlers, touts, and grifters ease through Toronto's Depression-era streets, their speech as deft as their fingers and feet. Good timing here is not just a tool for conning bateses, pinching pokes, scoring pits. It's a sign of a sensibility, a kind of knowingness. Characters with rhythm of movement or language see and sense things to which other Torontonians, lazy-eyed suckers all, are oblivious. In manner of its characters' clipped but rhythmic speech, Alder's third-person narration taps out an easy patter, often in imagistic sentence fragments. Parts of speech are rationed in downtrodden city, forcing readers to fill in blanks-pronouns, verbs, articles-the way impoverished citizens patch their suits. Mona, our grifter heroine, has most preternaturally perfect timing in novel. She is a stall: that half of a pickpocketing duo responsible for manoeuvering mark into position through imperceptible nudging and blocking. Once victim has been set up, stalled for subtlest instant, cannon moves in to pull touch, reef an easy kick. (Provided no one crumbs play.) The argot and choreography of pickpocket or the whiz do not penetrate dull senses of upright citizens; as one grifter puts it to a reporter, We can kibbitz right there in front of sucker and he don't even Eli Morenz is Toronto Star's city man. In addition to his ear for puns, Eli has a feel for pace of an interview that's as keen as Mona's sense of whiz. He extracts information with deft nonchalance-never rumbles a bates. Eli is only Torontonian who experiences Mona's genius as anything other than an inexplicably empty pocket. Making strategic use of an incriminating photo of her taken by a Star photographer, Eli induces Mona to instruct him in art of grift. In their first class, she trails him around his tiny apartment, picking his delighted pocket again and again. (Eli feels nothing but her eyes.) In a subsequent session, she forks over grifter lexicon: Bang a souper? Steal a pocket-watch. Good, says Mona. Keister kick? Uh. Hip pocket. The dipsy? A warrant. Centre britch? Eli flushes. Uh, he says. Come on come on. Well, space between left britch and right britch. The cock, says Mona. Right. Cock. You're catching on. How about raust? Um, says Eli. Mona jabs his hand with lit end of her cigarette. Ow! What was that for? An example, says Mona. A raust is misdirection. Her lessons-the less interesting ones, anyway-he publishes in Star, giving readers/suckers a glimpse of (under)world they fail to notice. As quoted passage suggests, intersection of economies in which Mona and Eli respectively specialize-of cash and information-is flirtatious. Eli's pocket is happily plundered; Mona hands over her secrets under most flattering duress. It doesn't take long for a third economy to spring up: Her hand steals away from small of his back. Lolls along thigh. Fingers his asshole. Uh, says Eli. That's not my pocket, you know. …

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Imitation des enseignants

Ni prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.

score de la tête « metaresearch » (Codex)0,000
score de la tête « metaresearch » (Gemma)0,000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aStatut de validation: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Catégories candidatesCharge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger)
Catégories consensuellesaucune
DomaineSignal candidat: aucune · Signal consensuel: aucune
Devis d'étudeSignal candidat: Sans objet · Signal consensuel: aucune
GenreSignal candidat: Autre · Signal consensuel: Autre
Score de désaccord entre enseignants0,645
Score d'incertitude au seuil0,999

Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie

CatégorieCodexGemma
Métarecherche0,0000,000
Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict)0,0000,000
Méta-épidémiologie (sens large)0,0000,000
Bibliométrie0,0000,000
Études des sciences et des technologies0,0000,000
Communication savante0,0000,000
Science ouverte0,0000,000
Intégrité de la recherche0,0000,000
Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger)0,0020,000

Scores machine (provisoires)

Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.

Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.

Tête enseignante Opus0,016
Tête enseignante GPT0,238
Écart entre enseignants0,222 · la distance entre les deux têtes enseignantes sur ce seul travail
Statut de validationscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découle