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Simmons (Powdered Eggs, Wrinkles) uses the broad strokes of Restoration comedy to distance the new book from his former employer. Surnames of staff members on the influential weekly Belles Lettres derive from the nomenclature of publishing and typography. Among the arcana: Jonathan Margin, Virginia Wrappers, Claire Tippin, Lou Bodoni, Xavier Deckle, Ellie Bellyband and Sylvia Topstain...
...Bible stories told in darkey dialect, with darkey psychology, darkey embellishments and modernizations. Sly, humorous, kindly, they are reminiscent of the late great Joel Chandler Harris's tales of Uncle Remus. A sample: "So Solomon started kingin' up and down de road, a-bowin' and tippin' his crown to de ladies and makin' riddles at de men folks, and he was a mighty good king...
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