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Author Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), master of the hard-guy school of crime fiction, openly sneered (in the Saturday Review of Literature) at those who prefer the too-too refined type of whodunit ("That charming Mrs. Jones-whoever would have thought she would cut off her husband's head with a meat saw? And such a handsome...
...read the Yellow Book, live up to one's blue china, grow long hair, be super-aesthetical, think of lilies, and have a sense of humor; the last qualification is, of course, paradoxical. Now Gilbert and Sullivan refused to have anything except a sense of humor, and insisted on putting too-too together to get vanity. That is sufficient apologia for "Patience...
...only man in the world who talks animal language-in all dialects. His adventures are varied -one of the most entertaining being his connivance in the escape of Sophie, the trained seal. The good doctor's intimates are all with him-Jip, the dog; Dab-Dab, the duck; Too-Too, the owl; Gub-Gub, the pig; Matthew Mugg, the Cat's meatman. The book is excellent propaganda for the prevention of cruelty to animals...
...aesthetes declare that Hamlet said: "O that this too-too solid flesh would melt...