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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

3.5 Questions From Dawn Powell

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For the New York Times review, Click there.

Was it true that this world was filled
with men and women merely 
marking time before 
their cemetery?

When did courage's lease expire,
was there no renewal possible?

What specialist in mediocrity
determined the prize winners
and ruled what measure
of banality was required
for success?

Dawn Powell
A Time To Be Born
(1942)




The next Dawn Powell page is here. 
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4 comments:

  1. The "easy name" wins the prize. Publicisists Insist their worth.

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    1. Easy names, such as Dorothy Parker,
      who was born "Dorothy Rothschild" before
      marrying a drunken soldier named Parker.

      Dawn Powell always used the name
      she was born with but qualified it this way:
      I know I have the name of a failed stripper,
      but I have used it to my advantage.


      Dawn's mother was a descendent
      of General Sherman.

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    2. In the first hyperlink of this page, Diana Trilling–
      a well-respected literary critic–
      described Dawn Powell as the writer
      who really says the funny things
      for which Dorothy Parker gets credit.

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  2. Dorothy Parker is eminently readable and quote-worthy.
    Her bon mots are as digestible as gummy bears.

    However, quoting Dawn Powell requires
    a taste for Oysters Rockefeller.

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