Here we come to two of the final
biggies left at The Treasury of Laughter: Thurber and Twain. One I
adore. The other I tolerate. One brimmed with a dark enthusiasm and
sweet sympathy for all that is humanity. The other, well, he liked to
linger on the side of cynicism and despair.
Enthusiasm and sympathy. Cynicism and
despair.
The American dichotomy of emotion,
summed up in two great writers.
More later.
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