Word: corkscrew
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...written. It really succeeds in its intention of exalting the ridiculous to the sublime. The author has breathed new life into the bygone idiom of poetic prose, and made it his own. Something should come of this. Mr. Hathaway, in his "Recollections of Reality", enlisted my sympathies with a corkscrew, and then began to alienate them with trout flies. Personally, I have always shunned as tedious any discussion of the superfluous and objectionable passion for hooking fish. But Mr. Hathaway broke down my prejudice with the delicate intimacy of his style, and I am forced to admit that I read...