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Phineas T. Pimiscule was not what you’d call an “attractive” man. He wasn’t “desirable” or “appealing.” He didn’t like “things” or do “stuff” or “wash” himself. He was not the kind of guy to “put” “quotation” “marks” around “words” or to say things in an unassuming or assuming way.
He was the kind of guy who wore a monocle.
He had also been known to fraternize with unsavory characters - a necessity of the job, and possibly a result of monocle-wearing. He traveled the world, seeing the worst of it - place with grotesque names like The Twelve Levels of Hidden Terror, Devil’s Hill, and Wyoming.
His wasn’t a glamorous life, but it was a necessary one… more necessary than anyone realized.
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“A summary of Moby Dick drawn in three panels”
Books summary drawn in three panels. Moby Dick is my favorite. (via Abridged Classics by Lisa Brown « …and Other Such Things)
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So pretty, my books need a beautiful library too.
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When Dad started Catch-22 in 1953, it was called Catch-18. Later, he and his young editor, Robert Gottlieb, changed the title because Leon Uris’s novel had usurped the number with Mila 18. I can remember nights at the dinner table with my parents tossing out different numbers. “Catch-27?” Nah, my father shook his head. “Catch-539?” Too long, too lumbering. I had no idea what they were talking about. Thank goodness for Bob, Dad’s übereditor at Simon & Schuster; he was the one to come up with the unremarkably remarkable number 22. Along with Dad’s redoubtable agent, Candida Donadio, and Nina Bourne, who plotted the clever, quirky promotional campaign for Catch-22, these were the book’s earliest disciples. Without them, not only wouldn’t there have been a number, there wouldn’t have been a book.
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