Word: stanchless
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...Lowdown. In the early letters, the bombast is most conspicuous. "Skoal to the stanchless flux," young Durrell ends one letter. ''Shakespeare lack'd art" and "wrote from the waist down," he proclaims. Soon, however, it can be learned that Durrell is on to his avuncular admirer. Durrell exhorts Miller to read the Elizabethans for his own good, and Miller in turn-partly because he is writing a 1,000-page exegesis on Hamlet-is humbly asking Durrell for "the lowdown on Hamlet ... I can't bring myself to read the damned thing. But I am very...
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