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...lucky and happy guy. When I go to Harvard in the morning, I don’t say, ‘Am I going to stutter [in class]?’” Shell shakes his head and smiles. “I look around and say, ‘Isn’t this great...
...latest book, “Stutter,” Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English Marc Shell explores a topic close to home...
...struggled with stuttering his whole life, and in this work, he approaches his subject from almost every conceivable angle. Shell, who spoke with The Crimson, illuminates stuttering’s medical, linguistic, cross-cultural, comedic, biblical, zoological, poetic, and political facets, to name...
...that’s not even mentioning cartoon animals like Porky Pig, whose comedic stammering, though perhaps politically incorrect, is scientifically sound. Shell finds that the logic of Porky’s jokes follows a human stutterer’s efforts to achieve fluidity...
...more Kosher segment of the book deals with Moses, perhaps the world’s most famous stammerer. Shell notes that Moses experienced outbursts of rage common to frustrated stutterers—the breaking of the first set of commandments may have been one such incident...