April 2012
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The Hilarious Vulgarity in House of Mirth →
An important author like her wouldn’t make dick jokes, let alone write a line like this: Mrs. Peniston was a small plump woman, with a colourless skin lined with trivial wrinkles (p. 172). The snickering reader cannot be blamed for making a crude connection when presented with that honey of a dick joke. If an author names a character Peniston and then describes said character as “small and...
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“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (The Children of Húrin)
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“Other publishers have chosen to settle. That is their decision to make. We have...”
– A Message from John Sargent
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