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...works both ways. Every thing you learn about the man will explain something in the work, while from every line he writes may be deduced some new and bigger and better repression in his private life. If you find an incident in his latest thriller about the horrible mur der of a mother by her son, it may be inferred that the writer's boyhood was made difficult for him by maternal dictatorship. If, on the other hand, someone tells you an anecdote about a youthful episode with a re versed hairbrush, how much more easily will you understand...
...girls say papa and mamma : The New York girl says "Ma - r!" with a jerk on the "r." The Philadelphia girl says "May-ar" through her nose. The St. Louis girl says "Ma'mar;" the Boston girl says "Mur-mur;" the Baltimore beauty "Mur-mur" and "Pur-pur;" the little Canadian says "Pa-ah" and "Ma-ah;" the Alabama girl says "Porr" and "Morr;" the Brooklyn girl says "Par-pah" and "Mah-ah;" the little London girls say, "Now, po-pow-ah, you make me lowof...
...Mur. We are men, my liege...