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Indulgent, or candid, or uncommon reader--I've some: a wife, a nun, a ghost or two--If I write for anyone, I wrote for you; So whisper when I die, We was too few; Write over me (if you can write; I hardly knew...
...Poetry and the Age begs for a criticism that "sounds as if it had been written by a reader for readers, by a human being for human beings," instead of by "a syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines." He could dismiss the pedantries of his associates with a single slash. He ends an essay on Whitman: "I have said so little about Whitman's faults because they are so plain: baby critics who have barely learned to complain of the lack of ambiguity in Peter Rabbit can tell you what is wrong with Leaves of Grass...
...expect the reader to believe the Catholic Church is falling apart because Mr. James Kavanaugh, ex-priest, wants to marry [Oct. 27]? When he is gone his faith will be passed on to another, so it is no great loss. But I was amused to think that any woman in her right mind would have him. If he could not keep his vows to God, how could she expect him to keep vows made...
...hurry. Just six months after becoming editor in chief of Harper's, he has published his memoirs at 32. "It could have been an act of real pretension," he concedes, and it probably is. But Morris decided to "tell it as it really is, to tell the reader something about belonging in America...
Thereafter, the reader may find the rest of Mots d'H cures compulsive, as one horrendous bilingual audio-pun follows another. L'lle deja accornee . . . Satinees cornees translates as "The [lord of the] island already has horns! Satiny corneas . . ." but it is really Little Jack Horner who sat in a corner...