Spokane�s history begins with the arrival of explorer David Thompson; who established the trading post Spokane House in 1810. From that period forward; the area teemed with Euro-American settlers who often mingled with the Native American population. Spokan Falls; officially incorporated in 1881; and by 1891 known simply as Spokane; became ground zero for the extractive industries of mining and logging and later a vast hub for the railroads. These factors led to the greatest boom in the city�s history between the years 1900 and 1915. Spokane�s growth came on the heels of an increase in the built environment that included the creation of parks; subdivisions; an expanded downtown business district; and an almost feverish movement to create some of Washington�s most beautifully designed bridges. Because of this; Spokane has often been referred to as the �City of Bridges.�
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23 of 35 people found the following review helpful. Sh*t Sandwich: a good comic effortBy A CustomerAfter "The Rants" and "Ranting Again"; Miller really delivers here. If you liked his work on Saturday Night Live; you will really enjoy this work; which shouldve been titled "Late Night Modernism." I didnt know whether to laugh or take out a note pad. Millers parody of academic idiom reproduces the real thing so closely that it might fool a tenured mind. His comparision of Beckett with Giacommetti was a hoot; but bringing in Bim and Bom went too far- that is my only gripe. Fans of Miller might have expected in this context a kind of "Surrealist Weekend Update." But the knotted and loopy references of his stand up routine have been translated well into pseudo-academic style; including footnotes. His pidgin academic is a veritable laugh griot.20 of 29 people found the following review helpful. a better book than first meets the eyeBy Hugh GiadicciI was first drawn to this book while waiting for my paramour outside of a popular but nameless Manhattan bookstore. She was late; as always; and to kill the time I skimmed the remainder bins; where some untutored storeclerk had remorselessly dumped several copies of Millers "Late Modernism." Was it the light winter breeze against my exposed neck; or Millers icy analytical touch; as he claws his way through the work of Barnes; Joyce; and Brothers that produced that uncanny frisson of feeling I felt as I turned from page to page? Who can say. Clearly Miller has fulfilled the wish of Eliots Prufrock; and we as readers feel compelled; altogether willingly; to scuttle silently across the pages of "Late Modernism." Reviewers on the books jacket had promised readers a "crabbed journey through the unnoticed grottoes of late modernism; and at the same time; a forward walking approach to literary theory." Miller delivers. As Miller suggests; form and content can be conceived against the legendary late modernist binary of the shell and the inside; and with Millers unrelenting hermenuetic in hand; we as readers become the recipients of the most succulent morsels of this most crustaceous period in Western literature. Miller casts his nets wide; revealing the fallacy of the classic distinction between the figurative and the littoral; which in recent criticism of this period has become something of a red herring. In the end; we recognize as readers what Miller has apparently known all along: that the crabs of modernism outnumber those of any cheap hotel.18 of 40 people found the following review helpful. trouble to digest this bookBy Herbie SimplexThis book; very puzzling. I read last night on way back from very excellent smorgasborg dinner at friend house. He make extra fine meatloaf with bread and also butter. I never so full. In all my life; I say; and very happy too. So then what? I read book. So depressing; you see. Mr. Tyrus Miller; he crack open modernism like rotten coconut and pour out spoiled milk for all to see. Now I am so sick and in pain; surely I die soon.
