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unearths some literary gems.
From Writings from the New Yorker, by E. B. White:
***The absence, in these participial items [i.e., captions in the form of “So-and-so, sitting next to such-and-such”], of any predicate is extremely exciting to the reader, who figures anything might happen.***There was a large bowl of tadpoles in the window of the Telephone Building….We stopped of course—we stop for anything in windows, particularly tadpoles.***The truth-in-advertising movement has just celebrated its silver jubilee, and everybody laughed when it stepped up to the piano.***We noted…. a theatre being built in the shape of a barn [and] a restaurant being built in the shape of a diner. It is amusing to see these American forms, which were the result of vicissitudes, being perpetuated after the need is over. Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has some little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.***removed all our effects, and our ineffects…***
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