Curiosities & Marginalia
On Erma Louise
Erma's wit had my deepest affection, despite my utterly shallow grasp of domestic American humor. She was—forgiving her youth— a competent incompetent witness,
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Curiosities & Marginalia
The drawer of oddments — items filed before anyone has fully explained why, dispatches best handled with gloves, and the marginal notes that turned out more interesting than the text beside them. Some of it survived by accident; we have declined to correct the accident. House rule: if it is too odd to shelve and too good to throw out, it belongs here.
Curiosities & Marginalia
On The Affectionators
That she infected my affectionators, that the affectionate affliction spread expediently, that her affectations came back to her by return of post and mine to me