The Confederacy of Bookworms
Bookworm
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The New Yorker Humorist, Thurber Benchley
I slept in James Thurber's bed that night. I was very thrilled by this, as a matter of fact. It did make any difference at all. I mean, it's unbelievably hilarious. For laughing out loud, I don't think anyone comes close to him. And for him to continue to have this ability, we read a lot of Thurber before he went there. Stuff I hadn't read since I was really a child,. not a seven or eight year old child. This stuff is, from a practical point of view, obviously very dated. That's what got me there, really. At the bottom of the invitation, with the letters, it said, and if you
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