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unearths some literary gems.
From Fashion, by Anna Cora Mowatt:
***"There is a jenny-says-quoi look about this furniture."***"The true test of a poet is the velocity with which he composes."***"Miss Tiffany is not visible this morning." [To mean she's not receiving, i.e., cannot "be seen."]***Bonus funny business with names:1. One character is listed as "T. Tennyson Twinkle, a Modern Poet" ("modern" in this play dating to 1845, mind you!). At one point another character refers to him as a "rhyming dictionary," which of course we can file with walking encyclopedias and such.2. A character calling himself Count Jolimaitre (spoiler--he's a fake!) is at one point referred to as "Count Jolly--what-d'ye-call-it."3. The pseudo-Count, in the course of improvising some name-dropping, invents a "Lord Knowswho."
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