unearths some literary gems.
[I'd thought I'd been through all the Thurber I was going to go through, but this posthumous collection of the uncollected stopped me on the street (that is, it was on a sidewalk shelf of free books outside a local book shop).]
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[In the preface, the editor does the math.]
By plotting the points that he makes in reference to others (x = here, a genuine concern; y = there, a round or unreserved applause, or a dismissive swipe, or a raised eyebrow), a figure of Thurber's own accomplishment can be traced.
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My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me.
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[More snippets attached. Note that the Rhetorical Question Answered segues nicely into one of those "Borgesian, Jamesian..."-style rosters; and the actual Jamesian snippets culminate in some flapping.]
