"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs."—Humorist James Thurber (1894-1961), New York Post, June 30, 1955
Funny…Just past the half-century mark, I've already experienced what afflicted Thurber at a more advanced age—though my high school English teachers, I believe, must have noticed this syndrome in me more than three decades ago!
Funny…Just past the half-century mark, I've already experienced what afflicted Thurber at a more advanced age—though my high school English teachers, I believe, must have noticed this syndrome in me more than three decades ago!
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