unearths some literary gems.
From the Bookman, 1920-1921:
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An editor may be known by the company he keeps waiting in his reception room. [Benchley]
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I do not write or know anything about writing. The Creative Wish never wished anything on me.
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"It's one of the few skeletons in my anatomy of melancholy that you haven't exhumed." [Morley]
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"prove by Cupid's grand old logarithms that two can live cheaper than one" [Morley]
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Bonuses:
Agnes Semicolon: (presumably) fictitious author
(presumably) fictitious article titles: "The Esoteric Value of the Baked Bean"; "The Crusade against the Antimacassar"
Notes on some of the attachments:
I label the abecedarian-related snippet "coals/Newcastle." (:v> Coincidentally, I just read about an eccentric entrepreneur of yore who may have turned a huge profit by literally selling coals to Newcastle (because an ill-advised attempt to do so coincided with a coalminers' strike in Newcastle).
"Hanemann" is Henry William.
I was tickled to run across the Giddy Globe cameo in one of the Morley snippets. And then Wodehouse sneaks in a Schenectady!
