Word: nombrilism
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Nobody, in one of Cummings' descriptions of him, is "Wifeless and only half awake, cursed with pimples, correctly dressed, cleanshaven above the nombril . . . in brief: an American." So Nobody naturally spends a good deal of his time laughing. The nice thing about Nobody's laughter, and the first thing most readers will like about Cummings' poetry, is that it carries no offense, even when directed at close relations: my uncle Daniel fought in the civil war band and can play the triangle like the devil...
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