His father, Timothy Doyle, a computer applications programming manager, noted an irony : Last year in a parents'spelling bee, he failed to spell " tatterdemalion " and was out.
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She travels with her twiggy sylvan companion, Pick, through the park and has an encounter with the tatterdemalion Ariel, a ghost-like messenger of the Word formed from the memories of dead children.
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"Tatterdemalion " is a dramatic thriller about an army veteran ( Fern ) who returns home to the Ozarks to look for her brother ( Billy ) and finds an abandoned boy in the woods.
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He gave " Nine Lives " a carefully tatterdemalion feel : some songs begin with the familiar alternative-rock gesture of the studio-edit collage : buzzing noises, tape run backward, warmup chatter.
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The song, like most of the songs on the album, features medieval fantasy-based lyrics, and makes direct reference to the painting's characters as detailed in Dadd's poem, such as Queen Mab, Waggoner Will, the Tatterdemalion, and others.
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In his autobiography Time and Again, he refers to the many classes of people in his community : " The Africans lived either in rooms in the back yards of their employers'houses or in sprawling, dusty, tatterdemalion'locations'; the Cape Coloureds ( people of mixed blood ) lived in their parts of town; the whites in theirs.
