08 July 2009
A footnote from Noel Coward
"Coming across a footnote, Noel Coward observed, is like going downstairs to answer the doorbell while making love."
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The Connecticut (or Hartford or Wicked) Wits were a group of late-18th-century poets who first attempted to write a distinctly American literature. THEY FAILED.
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