"An ode to the beauty and dignity of the human spirit, " says a cover blurb.
One wag composed an ode to the controversy making the rounds of social media.
Indeed, in many ways this book is as much an ode to the value of education and knowledge as it is an adventure story.
Opening with "Pluto, " an ode to the "overthrown" planet (and closing with "Pluton, " a French re-imagining of the song), the record makes its cheekiness immediately apparent.
Ode to the Inverse of the Dude doesn't come out until April 21, but the group's next album is already slated to come out in early 2010.
The Detroit, Michigan-based group The High Strung may have recorded hundreds of tracks together before actually releasing an album, but Ode to the Inverse of the Dude marks their fourth official studio release.
For last year's race, Weiss and her husband Billy spent three months building their Taco Truck sculpture, a Day of the Dead-inspired ode to the traveling Mexican food kitchens that are ubiquitous in California.
What inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write the "Ode to Joy" in his Ninth Symphony?
She oozed all over the stage to Sexomatic, belted out I Can't Wait To Meetchu to her maker (only to be answered by a very heavy downpour), and pleased the crowd no-end with the ode to screwed-up lovin', Still.
They were obviously written as an ode to her success on the Pop Idol show: "Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this - I can't believe it's happening to me".
Deep Fried Man's act includes an ode to interracial love that gets the audience clapping along.
Michael veers back to the personal with the lush American Angel, apparently an ode to his partner Kenny Goss.
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Abrams published a 224-page ode to Jeter in March drawn from the pages of the New York Times.
With its muted brass and ominous strings, it's an ode to regret and a rebuke of the music of the 1960s gaudy spy thrillers.
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Mail columnist Jan Moir, for one, penned an ode to "Britain's favourite chocs", criticising the "smaller, meaner" replacements.
The result is a hypnotic, thumping ode to love and death, performed with an air of ennui Gainsbourg would likely have appreciated.
"I thought it was only fitting to put pen to paper and write them a fitting ode, " said the Rastafarian writer.
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In Tom Tykwer's ode to unquenchable motion, mini-stories emerge when you slow down the whimsical rapid-fire still sequences.
Hong Kong (CNN) -- The world watched, as the London 2012 Olympic Games opened with director Danny Boyle's elaborate ode to England, and furiously tapped their reaction on social media.
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