tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35591774002196648712024-03-18T08:50:15.322-07:00The Why Not 100Lots of lists for lit loversBrad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-68379605272624763212015-10-14T14:37:00.000-07:002015-10-14T14:37:10.478-07:001 HOMAGE TO ONE-HIT WONDERS<div style="text-align: left;">
I’m not sure I remember a more satisfying moment from my
childhood than the movie moment when Charlie Bucket unwrapped the Golden Ticket
in <i>Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory</i>.
“Greetings to you, the lucky finder of
this Golden Ticket from Mr. Willy Wonka… In your wildest dreams you could not
imagine the marvelous surprises that await you!”</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So you can imagine
the thrill a generation later when I wrote a magazine article about Peter
Ostrum, the actor who played Charlie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">His rise to fame
was remarkable. </span>Here was a kid from Ohio who was performing at the
Cleveland Playhouse children’s theater in 1970 when he was discovered by agents
casting the film. They took some Polaroid pictures, tape-recorded him reading
from some lines, called him in for a screen test a couple of months later… and
suddenly 12-year-old Pete was Charlie Bucket, traveling overseas for the first
time, to Munich, and acting opposite the likes of Gene Wilder and Jack
Albertson.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was basically playing himself—down to earth and able to
be awed without losing a sense of self. But unlike Charlie, who gratefully
inherited Wonka’s factory, Ostrum returned to Cleveland with the suspicion that
filmmaking wasn’t quite his (edible) cup of tea. He even turned down producer
David Wolper’s offer of a three-picture deal. “I enjoyed making the movie,” he
told me, “but at that point, did I want to be a film actor for the rest of my
life? I guess I didn’t.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Instead, he found an entirely different calling. Shortly
after he completed the film, his family acquired a horse. When a veterinarian
arrived at the stables one day, Ostrum watched him work and had a life-changing
epiphany. Three decades after his single film credit, Peter Ostrum has a Doctor
of Veterinary Medicine degree on the wall of his practice in upstate Lowville,
NY, instead of lickable wallpaper. He is surrounded not by Oompa Loompas, but
by a handful of dogs and cats. <o:p></o:p></div>
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No, he doesn’t actually own one of the dozen or so original
Golden Tickets, said to be a valuable collector’s item nowadays—just a
clapstick slate and a couple of Wonka Bars. But Dr. Peter Ostrum is so content
in his choices that perhaps the final lines of his sole movie appearance were
prescient after all:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who
suddenly got everything he always wanted."<o:p></o:p></div>
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"What happened?"<o:p></o:p></div>
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"He lived happily ever after."<o:p></o:p></div>
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So in the only movie he ever made, Ostrum had a starring
role, grabbed a Golden Ticket, piloted a Great Glass Elevator, inherited a candy
conglomerate and cemented his place in film history. Might he be the ultimate
one-hit wonder? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Malcolm Gladwell would plotz. The most talked-about and
compelling part about Gladwell’s outstanding book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Outliers</i> was his decision to repeatedly trumpet the “10,000-hour
rule”—the notion that the key to success in almost any field is, to a large extent,
a matter of simply practicing a specific task for at least 10,000 hours. The
notion stems from the widespread belief, certainly generally valid, that achievement
is all about perseverance. Practice makes perfect. Never say die. Try, try
again. If at first you don’t succeed…<o:p></o:p></div>
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But sometimes, at first, you do succeed. Wildly. Like Peter
Ostrum, a handful of folks have tried something once, achieved near perfection,
then left it at that. They batted 1.000 for eternity. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A fellow named John Paciorek did so literally. He appeared
in exactly one major league baseball game—for the old Houston Cold ‘45s on the
last day of the 1963 season. In five times at bat, he singled three times,
walked twice, scored four runs, and recorded three runs batted in. He also made
a couple of nice running catches in the outfield. Paciorek was anointed
Houston’s star of the future, but a series of injuries that began in the
offseason derailed his career. That remarkable first game would prove to be the
only big league game he ever played. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There are echoes of “Moonlight” Graham in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Field of Dreams</i>: “Back then I thought,
Well, there will be other days. I didn’t realize that that was the only day.”
Except Graham didn’t get to bat at all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And sure, it’s tempting to call Paciorek the can’t-miss-kid
who missed, but he did make it after all, right? And in that one game, he was
simply flawless—he will forever have, literally, a perfect batting average. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But what about music, you ask? Isn’t that the source of the
term one-hit wonder? Sure, there are scores of songs to choose from—hit singles
from solo acts or band that never produced another. You know, like “Tainted
Love” by Soft Cell, or “Come on Eileen”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>by Dexys Midnight Runners, or “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum.
However, those weren’t the only songs by those artists—just the most successful
ones. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ah, but one particular can’t-get-it-out-of-my-head tune was
recorded by a specific group of little-known musicians who joined for a single
recording session. Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo, and Dale Frashuer couldn’t come up
with suitable lyrics, so they substituted words like “hey hey” and “na na.”
They were said to be so embarrassed by the song that they attributed it to a
fictional band called Steam. The result: “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye”
became a number one single on the Billboard Top 100 in late 1969. To this day,
it remains a sports stadium crowd-chant staple. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nearly everybody knows the one song they recorded in a
single session. That’s a one-hit wonder. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Okay, how about filmmakers? Well, if you’re a fan of zombie
films, you surely have seen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Night of the
Living Dead</i>, the paragon of pasty animated corpse flicks. But director
George Romero once said his film was directly inspired by another, a 1962
black-and-white called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carnival of Souls</i>,
which was a micro-budget horror movie filmed by a guy named Herk Harvey in his
Kansas hometown. It was the only film he ever completed before returning to a
quiet life as a Kansas businessman, but it is referenced reverently by modern
horror filmmakers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If we’re talking reverence, however, let’s talk literature. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s start with<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> A
Confederacy of Dunces</i>, the unforgettable romp of fat and flatulent Ignatius
J. Reilly. John Kennedy Toole wrote it, couldn’t snag a publisher, and
committed suicide in 1969 at age 31. His book was published posthumously and, twelve
years after his death, won the Pulitzer Prize. However, not many folks know
that it wasn’t actually his first novel. He wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Neon Bible</i> at the age of 16 in 1954 and couldn’t get that
published either. It was eventually released eight years after Confederacy hit
it big. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While a whole bunch of people consider <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Confederacy</i> to be one of their favorite books, consensus suggests
that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To Kill a Mockingbird</i> is THE most-loved
piece of literature ever produced. Nearly every student has read it. There are
nearly 30 million copies in print. In 1999, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Library Journal</i> poll voted it Best Novel of the Century. I’m pretty
sure I agree. And the movie was great, too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lee published the Pulitzer-winning book in 1960, then never published
another novel for 55 years, although she did help her childhood pal Truman
Capote in his research for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In Cold Blood</i>—and
how’s that for another classic? “I have said what I wanted to say, and I will
not say it again,” she once explained. Which is one reason publication of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Go Set a Watchman</i> was so… disappointing.
Well, that and the fact that Atticus Finch turned out to be less than perfect. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But while I will be forever grateful to Harper Lee as an author’s
inspiration, she no longer qualifies as a one-hit wonder. And I genuinely liked
Peter Ostrum, but he’s not number one either. Nor is John Paciorek, even though
I’m a baseball history nut. <o:p></o:p></div>
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No, I think I most love the story of John Daniels. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Daniels is believed to have snapped one photograph in his
life. He did it on December 17, 1903, on a cold and windy day on the sandy
shores of the Atlantic Ocean. And he made it count. Daniel’s photograph is
depicted on the North Carolina quarter. It has been blown up to a
10-foot-by-10-foot size and paraded through the state. It has been recreated in
statues of bronze at almost the very location that it occurred. It is simply
one of the most significant snapshots in human history. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On that day in 1903, Daniels was among a handful of people
keeping busy at a particularly wind-ravaged spot in North Carolina’s Outer
Banks, a placed called Kill Devil Hills. The busiest two people were brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright. Daniels, a rescue worker from the local lifesaving
station, was merely helping out where he could. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The story of the Wright brothers is the tale of the right
men coming along at the right time. Daniels happened to be in the right place.
After years of preparation, the Wrights pointed their aircraft into the wind.
Orville set up a camera on a tripod, aiming it at a point he hoped the machine
would reach when it left its take-off rail. He instructed Daniels to press the
shutter if the aircraft actually left the ground. After about 45 feet, the
flying machine lifted into the air, and 120 feet later it touched the earth
again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Daniels later claimed that he was so excited at the flight’s
success that he thought he had forgotten to squeeze the bulb. But the photo was
perfect, capturing the craft two feet off the ground, with Orville at the
controls and Wilbur running alongside. It was the very moment that changed the
world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The photograph has since been analyzed endlessly—from the
location of footprints in the sand to the speed of the propellers—but it was
actually the lesser of Daniels’s major thrills that day. After the Wright’s
fourth successful flight, a gust of wind caught the Flyer, causing it—and
Daniels, who had been holding on—to cartwheel across the beach. The Flyer was
damaged and never flew again. Until 1937, when he finally took a flight to
Cleveland, the same could have been said of Daniels, who explained, “I’ve had
all the thrill I ever want in an airplane.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Daniels spent the rest of his years in relative obscurity on
the Carolina coast, and he may have been most proud not of his seminal
photograph but of his pioneering bruises as the first airplane casualty. In
fact, Orville Wright, who died within 24 hours of Daniels in 1948, used to joke
that his friend “rode further in the plane than either of the inventors.” Of
course, there were no photographs to prove it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-58411448589722916862015-10-14T14:36:00.003-07:002018-02-16T21:58:37.527-08:0031 FABULOUS PHILOSOPHIES FROM THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In chapter three of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Phantom Tollbooth</i>, young protagonist
Milo and his dog-clock-sidekick Tock arrive at the gates to the city of
Dictionopolis, where they encounter a gateman. There follows this exchange: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You
can’t get in without a reason.” He thought for a moment and then continued.
“Wait a minute; maybe I have an old one you could use.”</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He
took a battered suitcase from the gatehouse and began to rummage busily through
it, mumbling to himself, “No… no… no… this won’t do… no… h-m-m-m… ah, this is
fine,” he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He
dusted it off and engraved on one side were the words “WHY NOT?”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“That’s
a good reason for almost anything—a bit used, perhaps, but quite serviceable.” <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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And that is as good a reason as any
why, when we started our publishing venture, we named it <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/" target="_blank">Why Not Books</a>. Well,
that and the words of George Bernard Shaw: “You see things as they are and ask,
‘Why?’ I dream thing that never worry and say, “Why not?’” <o:p></o:p></div>
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With that in mind, I offer 31
philosophical musings from some of Juster’s most memorable characters—from the
Humbug to the Mathemagician to Princesses Rhyme and Reason. They are life
lessons from a lively mind:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. King
Azaz and the Mathemagician: “So many things are possible just as long as you
don’t know they’re impossible.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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2. The Princess of Sweet Rhyme: “It’s not just learning things that’s
important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you
learn things at all that matters.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. The Humbug: “Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to
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4. Alec Bings: “If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes
open, but if it isn’t there you can see it just as well with your eyes closed.
That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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5. The Soundkeeper: “Did you know that there are almost as many kinds of
stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to
them these days… Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if
you listen carefully… If there’s one thing we need more of around here, it’s
less noise.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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6. The Dodecahedron: “If you had high hopes, how would you know how high
they were? And did you know that narrow escapes come in all different widths?
Would you travel the whole wide world without ever knowing how wide it was? And
how could you do anything at long last without knowing how long the last was?
Why, numbers are the most beautiful and valuable thing in the world.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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7. The .58 Child: “One of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything
else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be,
often are. You see, it’s very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know
that it’s there, but you just don’t know where—but just because you can never
reach it doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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8. The Whether Man: “I don’t know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if
this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it
doesn’t it must be the road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads
to anywhere.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. Alec Bings: “Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are;
it’s a matter of not knowing where you aren’t—and I don’t care at all about
where I’m not.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. The Terrible Trivium: “What could be more important than going
unimportant things?... Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the
easy and useless jobs, you’ll never have to worry about the important ones
which are so difficult.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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11. The Princess of Sweet Rhyme: “Many place you would like to see are just
off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little
beyond your reach. But someday you’ll reach them all, for what you learn today,
for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of
tomorrow.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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12. Milo: “Why is it that quite often even the things which are correct just
don’t seem to be right?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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13. The Princess of Pure Reason: “You must never feel badly about making
mistakes as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often
learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for
the wrong reasons.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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14. The Mathemagician: “You’ll find that the only thing you can do easily is
be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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15. The Dodecahedron: “As long as the answer is right, who cares if the
question is wrong?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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16. Canby: “Every time you decide something without having a good reason, you
jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It’s such an easy trip to make
that I’ve been here hundreds of times.”</div>
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17. The Whether Man: “Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected
never happens.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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18. The Gelatinous Giant: “If it’s one thing I can’t swallow, it’s ideas:
they’re so hard to digest.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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19. Kakofonous A. Dischord, Doctor of Dissonance: “I only treat illnesses
that don’t exist; that way, if I can’t cure them, there’s no harm done.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. The .58 Child: “If you didn’t have any money at all, but you happened to
be with four other people who had ten dollars apiece, then you’d each have an
average of eight dollars… Think how much better off you’d be, just because of
averages.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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21. The Humbug: “We’re an old and noble family, honorable to the core—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Insecticus humbugium</i>, if I may use the
Latin. Why, we fought in the crusades with Richard the Lion Heart, crossed the
Atlantic with Columbus, blazed trails with the pioneers, and today many members
of the family hold prominent government positions throughout the world. History
is full of Humbugs.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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22. The Mathemagicians: “I often find that the best way to get from one place
to another is to erase everything and begin again.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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23. Faintly Macabre, the not-so-wicked Which: “Today people use as many words
as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember
that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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24. The Cabinet of King Azaz of Dictionopolis: “We’re not interested in
making sense… Besides, one word is as good as another—so why not use them
all?... Then you don’t have choose which one is right… Besides, if one is
right, then ten are ten times as right.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sea</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">? Stephen King’s </span></em><em><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">is Lord of the Flies</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">. Jonathan Franzen loves Toni Morrison’s </span></em><em><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Song of Solomon</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">. Or how about creative types like Tom Hanks (</span></em><em><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In Cold Blood</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">) and Matt Damon (</span></em><em><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A People’s History of
the United States</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">). Steven Spielberg? His
favorite book is </span></em><em><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Last of the Mohicans</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></em></span></div>
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it give you a dash of insight into the artist? Professing a literary love is an
especially intimate admission, perhaps a tiny glimpse into someone’s soul. Books
stay with you—intellectually, emotionally, and often quite literally. A favorite
story offers a sense of sensibilities, as it were. And this may be particularly
true when you get specific. <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/peterorner\.net\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://peterorner.net/works/" target="_blank">Peter Orner</a></span></span></span></span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;">is the author </span>Am I Alone Here?<span style="font-style: normal;">, a collection of essays that was 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as four
critically acclaimed books of fiction, including</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Esther’s Stories</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;">and</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.kqed\.org\/a\/forum\/R201308271000\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge</span></span></span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal;">. The latter was a</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New York Times</span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> Editor’s Choice book for 2013 and a</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wall Street Journal</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Best Book of 2013. He has
established himself as a master of the short form, and his stories have
appeared in</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Best American Stories</span></i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">,</span><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></em><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Atlantic Monthly</i></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> and</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paris Review.</span> </i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He also happens to be an old high school pal of mine. So I asked him
for a favor in the form of a list of favorites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What are the stories that he cannot forget? That he re-reads often? The
writings that formed a writer? He came up with a list of 13, though he admitted
“if I had the list to do over again an hour from now, it would be completely
different.” But he is inspired enough by the choices that follow that he
described them thusly: “They’ve become so familiar to me that they’re not even
stories anymore but things that happened not only to these characters, but to
me and my own.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1. “First
Sorrow” by Franz Kafka<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My definition of a perfect story because it is not, and
never will be, perfect. Nor will I ever understand it. The trapeze artist's joy
and suffering become more mysterious every time I re-read it. He's up there, on
his trapeze, even now, as we speak. I read the story again this morning. Take a
look up in the rafters.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Otherwise
nothing disturbed his seclusion; occasionally, perhaps, some theater hand
straying through the empty theater of an afternoon gazed thoughtfully up into
the great height of the roof, almost beyond eyeshot, where the trapeze artist,
unaware that he was being observed, practiced his art or rested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor</span> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No better story about the horror—and complete
and total absurdity—of war. Every politician and general should read it before
choosing to spill young blood when there are alternatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Head was born in South Africa but
exiled to a small village in Botswana, and her stories are about life, from the
perspective of both an insider and outsider. “Life” is the name of a
character whose dreams can’t be contained by the village. The beer-selling
women predict that she’ll eventually “settle down— intelligent girls got jobs
in the post office sooner or later.” But Life will never work in the post
office. Her murder—as swift, direct and no nonsense as the story itself, has
haunted me for years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s winter in Pittsburgh, and a
man comes home after a long time away—to a family that has endured unspeakable
tragedy. And yet there is so much light in the story, the kind that can gives
you the faith to face another day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have rarely been better captured. Read this story and appreciate everything
that makes your own family both wonderful and weird. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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author and 1972 Nobel Prize winner hones in on the moment when a train is
about to leave: a whole world in a single moment. Proof that what matters isn’t
the number of words but the level of emotion. Love, loss and leave-taking in
three unforgettable pages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To my mind, the most
mysterious ordinary story ever written in English. In busy
London, a man leaves his wife and moves around the corner. He thinks one day
he’ll go home, but for some reason he never does and the years pile up and pile
up… and in the meantime he watches her get old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ice Wagon Coming Down the Street” by Mavis Gallant</span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
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About what I call the “Country of Us,” that strange place created by two
people that doesn’t exist on any map: coupledom. You know what I mean? How
couples create their own reality? The couple in this story could be the most
memorable ever written.</span></span></div>
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Bishop” by Anton Chekhov</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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stories, it’s about a bishop on his deathbed looking back and seeing,
among many other things, that it was the small, seemingly inconsequential
things that constituted his life. Not the prestige of his office, which means
nothing. I’d like to have this in my hand when I take my last
breath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This story has a voice that never
stops speaking to me. An entire life—an entire universe—in 10 pages. I
was popular in certain circles, says Aunt Rose. I wasn’t no thinner then, only
more stationary in the flesh. By the end, she’ll be your Aunt Rose
too. She’s been mine since I first read it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Considered by many to be Mexico’s
greatest writer, Rulfo wrote just two books: Pedro Paramo, a novel
so important to Garcia Marquez that he is said to have memorized it; and The
Burning Plain, a collection of stories that includes “Luvina.” A bar story,
set in a desert. One man’s on a quest; the other has already lived his life and
is full of warnings. And outside night kept on advancing. Doesn’t
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moving American story ever written. (Until I change my mind.) A man who knows
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National Book Award-winner Maya
Angelou once wrote, “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” About a century
earlier, Oscar Wilde declared, “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning and unallied
with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Color can turn a setting into a
sonnet. Just consider Jack Kerouac’s description of a sunset: “Soon it got
dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields;
the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the
color of love and Spanish mysteries.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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So while Georgia O’Keeffe one
contended that she could “say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say
any other way… things I had no words for,” we at the Why Not 100 think color is
as integral to a good book as it is to a good painting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here we offer a multi-hued
menagerie of colorful book titles. And we’re not going to repeat a color (sorry
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harold and the Purple Crayon</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Green Mile and The Bluest Eye, </i>not
to mention <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Red Pony, The Red Tent,
Where the Red Fern Grows, and The Hunt for Red October).</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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The sheer variety of color names
out there is remarkable. Huckleberry? Chocolate? Mango? Cornflower? But out of
respect for literature, we refuse to list <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fifty
Shades of Grey</i>. On the other hand, out of self-respect, we did include a recent
Why Not Books title at the very end: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1. The Color Purple</i> (Alice Walker)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2. The Scarlet Letter</i> (Nathaniel
Hawthorne)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3. The Red Badge of Courage</i>
(Stephen Crane)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">4. A Clockwork Orange</i> (Anthony
Burgess)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">5. Green Eggs and Ham</i> (Dr. Seuss)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">6. Blue Highways</i> (William Least
Heat-Moon)</div>
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7. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Beauty</i> (Anna Sewell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">8. White Fang</i> (Jack London)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>
(Mark Twain)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">10. Crome Yellow</i> (Aldous Huxley)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">11. James and the Giant Peach</i>
(Roald Dahl)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12. The Lilac Bus</i> (Maeve Binchy)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">13. The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>
(Oscar Wilde)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">14. The Man in the Brown Suit</i>
(Agatha Christie)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">15. Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter
& Vine</i> (Tom Wolfe)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">16. Plum Lucky</i> (Janet Evanovich)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17. The Crimson Petal and the White</i>
(Michael Faber)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">18. Indigo Slam</i> (Robert Crais)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">19. Ruby </i>(V.C. Andrews)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">20. The Fuchsia is Now</i> (J. Otto
Seibold)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">21. Rose in Bloom</i> (Louisa May
Alcott)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">22. Magenta Rave</i> (Janna Zonder)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">23. Violet Eyes</i> (Nicole Luiken)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">24. The Chartreuse Clue</i> (William F.
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">25. Amber and Ashes</i> (Margaret Weis)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">26. Olive, the Other Reindeer</i>
(Vivian Walsh)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">27. Oscar and the Lady in Pink</i>
(Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">28. Running from Beige</i> (Terri
Marie)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">29. The Opposite of Chocolate</i>
(Julie Bertagna)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">30. The Ginger Man</i> (J.P. Donleavy)<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. T<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he Girl With the Jade Green Eyes </i>(John
Boyd)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">32. Girl in Hyacinth Blue</i> (Susan
Vreeland)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">33. The Turquoise Ledge</i> (Leslie
Marmon Silko)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">34. Tangerine</i> (Edward Bloor)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">35. Burnt Sienna</i> (David Morrell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">36. The Lime Twig</i> (John Hawkes)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">37. The Red Lemon</i> (Bob Staake)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">38. Goldenrod: Dark of Night</i>
(Richard Lewis Grant)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">39. Cerulean Sins</i> (Laurell K.
Hamilton)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">40. Charcoal </i>(J.E. Rowney)’<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">41. Khaki </i>(Carol James Drolet)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">42. Royal Blue</i> (Kat Attalla)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">43. Maroon</i> (Barry Mason)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">44. Azure</i> (Chrystalla Thoma)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">45. A Tan and Sandy Silence</i> (John
D. Macdonald)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">46. Aquamarine</i> (Alice Hoffman)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">47. Lavender-Green Magic</i> (Andre
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">48. Cornflower</i> (Bekki Lynn)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">49. Heritage from Cyan</i> (Christopher
Berry)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">50. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm</i>
(Carolyn Keene)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">51. The Coral Sea</i> (Patti Smith)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">52. Puce is Pretty</i> (Linda Mackin)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">53. Periwinkle of Pod</i> (Richard
Albright)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">54. The Emerald Talisman</i> (Brenda
Pandos)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">55. Chase of the Teal Tiger</i>
(Margaret Ernsberger)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">56. The House on Mango Street</i>
(Sandra Cisneros)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">57. A Basketful of Taupe</i> (Kylie
Irvine)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">58. The Golden Compass</i> (Philip
Pullman)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">59. The Silver Chair</i> (C.S. Lewis)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">60. Griffin Blade and the Bronze Finger</i>
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Baseball Hall of Famer and language
mangler Yogi Berra is famous for saying many things. Among them is this: “I
really didn’t say everything I said.” He’s not alone. Were we to choose, along
with Yogi, an all-star team of the misquoted and misattributed throughout
history, we could include the likes of Shakespeare and Churchill, Bogart and
Cagney, Marie Antoinette and Paul Revere, Sherlock Holmes and Captain Kirk.
Indeed, the misquote has become something of a national pastime. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Leo Durocher could manage this
all-star team. Before a 1946 game with the New York Giants, the Brooklyn
Dodgers’ manager declared, “The nice guys are all over there. In seventh
place.” Sportswriters took over from there, increasing the pop and decreasing
the wordage, and Durocher’s legendary line became “Nice guys finish last.” He
long denied having uttered those exact words, but in a lesson in the
perpetuation of myths, it became the title of a 1975 book co-written by
Durocher himself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The words also lent themselves to
another book title: <i>Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious
Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations</i> by quote collector and corrector Ralph
Keyes. Unlike most of us, who accept classic quotes without a need to verify,
Keyes did some painstaking research to find out the truth. According to Keyes,
misquotes take three basic forms:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The wrong words in the right mouth<o:p></o:p></div>
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The right words in the wrong mouth<o:p></o:p></div>
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The wrong words in the wrong mouth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So let’s take a tour of some of
history’s most famous misquotations, each categorized and corrected: <o:p></o:p></div>
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WRONG WORDS IN THE RIGHT MOUTH:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Sometimes the person said it—just not
that way. The most common process by which this occurs is what Keyes describes
as “bumper stickering”—condensing an unwieldy comment into a concise quote for
the ages (as Durocher’s was). The limitations of the mind can wreak havoc on
the truth, too, particularly with original true phrasing. Keyes describes it as
a sort of historical game of “Telephone.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, the message remains largely the
same; the quote does not. Some classic examples: <o:p></o:p></div>
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1. “War
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Not
long after the U.S. Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman told an Ohio
audience, “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but,
boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to
come.” Indeed, they did, but they shortened it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2. “I
have nothing to offer but blood, sweat, and tears.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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What
Winston Churchill actually said, in his address to the House of Commons on May
13, 1940, was: “I have nothing to offer but blood and toil, tears and sweat.”
Over the years, time shortened and alphabetized it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. “I’m
ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s
how everyone repeats it, right? But in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunset
Boulevard</i>, Gloria Swanson actually said, “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready
for my close-up.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. “Why
don’t you come up and see me sometime?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In
the 1933 film <i>She Done Him Wrong</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">,
Mae West actually said it in this order</span>: “Why don’t you come up sometime
and see me?” In her next movie, I’m No Angel, she did say, “Come up and see my
sometime.” But without the “Why don’t you.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 5. </span>“Alas! Poor Yorick! I knew him well!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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If
you want to quote Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” properly, the line is: “Alas! Poor
Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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6. “Methinks
the lady doth protest too much.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another
frequently misquoted line from “Hamlet.” It was really the other way around:
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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7. “All
that glitters is not gold.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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When
Shakespeare’s Prince of Morocco voices this sentiment in “The Merchant of
Venice,” he actually says, “All that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">glistens</i>
is not gold.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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8. “A
rose by any other name smells just as sweet.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sure,
except that in “Romeo and Juliet” Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? That
which we call a rose by another word would smell as sweet.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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9. “He
who hesitates is lost.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
actual wording from Joseph Addison’s 1713 play, <i>Cato</i>, was this: “The
woman that deliberates is lost.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. “Music
soothes the savage beast.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
original line from William Cosgreve’s play, <i>The Mourning Bride</i>, was:
“Music has charms to soothe a savage <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">breast</i>.”
Over time, it lost its charm and its breast. <o:p></o:p></div>
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11. “Please,
sir, can I have some more?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In
Charles Dickens’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oliver Twist</i>, the
title character doesn’t actually ask for it. He says, “Please, sir, I want some
more.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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12. “Water,
water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
actual line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
is: “Water, water, every where/Nor any drop to drink.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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13. “Houston,
we have a problem.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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When
Tom Hanks played Commander Jim Lovell in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apollo
13</i>, this is what he said. But what Lovell actually said in 1970 was “Okay,
Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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14. “Well,
here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oliver
Hardy did express this to Stan Laurel. But the actual quote, in a short film
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hardy Murder Case</i>, was:
“Well, here’s another <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nice</i> mess
you’ve gotten me into.” The source of confusion? Undoubtedly the title of their
duo’s next film—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Another Fine Mess</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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15. “We
don’t need no steenking badges!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
actual line, from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre</i>, is: “Badges? We ain’t go no badges. We don’t need no badges.
I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” A parody scene in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blazing Saddles</i> may be most to blame for
the misquote. <o:p></o:p></div>
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16. “You
want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
actual dialogue from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Few Good Men</i>
is: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You
want answers?”<br />
“I want the truth!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You
can’t handle the truth!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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17. “I’m
out of order? You’re out of order! This whole court’s out of order!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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If
Jack Nicholson can be often misquoted, Al Pacino can be, too. What his
character Arthur Kirkland says, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And
Justice for All</i>, is: “You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trial</i> is out of order!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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18. “If
you build it, they will come.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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They
do come at the end of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Field of Dreams</i>—a
line of cars stretching to the horizon. But what the cornfield whispers say
are: “If you build it, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he</i> will come.”
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19. “Mirror,
mirror, on the wall…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Queen in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs </i>is
actually talking to a “Magic mirror on the wall…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. “Just
the facts, ma’am.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In
the “Dragnet” series, Sergeant Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb) said, “All we
want are the facts, ma’am.” And he said, “All we have are the facts, ma’am.”
But never “just the facts.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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RIGHT WORDS IN THE WRONG MOUTH: <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When history attributes the right phrase
to the wrong person, either it has been mistakenly attributed or consciously
appropriated. Keyes calls the latter “lip-syncing”—mouthing someone else’s
words as if they were your own. He explains, “An axiom among public speakers is
this: the first time you use a quote, introduce it by saying, ‘As Joe Doe once
said…’ The second time, ‘It’s been said…’ The third time, ‘As I’ve often
said…’” A few examples:<o:p></o:p></div>
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21. “Don’t fire
until you see the whites of their eyes!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is often attributed to Andrew
Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. But it was said by Colonel William
Prescott during the Battle of Bunker Hill. And he was only repeating similar
statements made decades earlier by both Prince Charles of Prussia and Frederick
the Great.<o:p></o:p></div>
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22. “I
only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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If
Nathan Hale ever said this before being executed as a British spy, then he was
borrowing and altering a line from <i>Cato</i>: “What pity is it that we can
die but once to serve our country.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">23. </span>“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask
what you can do for your country.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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JFK
sincerely meant this inaugural exhortation, but he was merely echoing
statements made by Warren G. Harding in 1916 and Oliver Wendell Holmes before
him in 1884. <o:p></o:p></div>
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24. “Some
men see things and say, ‘Why?’ But I dream of things that never were and ask,
‘Why not?’”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nowadays most people think Bobby
Kennedy (or his speechwriters) conceived the line, a sentiment that was, in
fact, the reason the publisher behind this list decided to call ourselves Why
Not Books. But the line is actually George Bernard Shaw’s: “You see things, and
you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never wore, and I say, ‘Why not?’”<o:p></o:p></div>
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25. “The
two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Author
Harlan Ellison stated this in a mid-1960s nonfiction essay. A generation later,
in his autobiography, Frank Zappa wrote, “Some scientists claim that hydrogen,
because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I
dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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26. “Go
west, young man.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even when the quote-repeater gives
proper credit, it doesn’t assure proper attribution. In an article for
Indiana’s <i>Terre Haute Express</i> in 1851, John Babsone Doule first
articulated what became Manifest Destiny’s motto. Horace Greeley reprinted the
article in his <i>New York Tribune</i>, and although he gave Soule full credit,
the advice has ever after been attributed to him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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27. “I
rob banks because that’s where the money is.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In
his autobiography, Willie Sutton claimed that credit for his famous life-of-crime
explanation belongs to an “enterprising reporter who apparently felt a need to
fill out his copy.” But Sutton later wrote a book called <i>Where the Money Is</i>.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Often, a pithy phrase needs to be
attached to a famous mouth, whether or not that famous mouth ever uttered it.
Keyes labels this the “flypaper effect,” the kind of phenomenon that has,
historically, made the most eminently quotable people seem even more prolific.
If a line sounds like something they would have said or should have said,
they’ll inevitably receive credit for it. For instance: <o:p></o:p></div>
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28. “Let
them eat cake.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Marie
Antoinette’s famous dismissal was actually a line from <i>Confessions</i>,
written by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau—when Antoinette was only
12. <o:p></o:p></div>
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29. “Winning
isn’t everything, it’s the only thing?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Vince
Lombardi, right? Nope, it was UCLA coach Red Sanders.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">30. </span>“There’s a sucker born every minute?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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There
is evidence that it wasn’t P.T. Barnum who said this, but rather a competitor
of his commenting on one of Barnum’s exhibits. But you can bet that Barnum
agreed with the premise. <o:p></o:p></div>
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31. “You
can’t trust anyone over 30.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A
guy named Jack Weinberg actually said it at UC-Berkeley in the late Sixties. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The San Francisco Chronicle </i>highlighted
the quote, other newspapers picked it up, and eventually it got attached to
Youth International Party co-founder Abbie Hoffman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">32. </span>“Any man who hates dogs and children can’t be
all bad.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It
may be W.C. Fields’s best-remembered observation, except he didn’t say it. It
was originally a remark made in 1937 by a <i>New York Times</i> reporter. The line
was printed in a <i>Harper’s Monthly</i> column and then repeated by a
sociologist as he introduced Fields at a 1939 banquet. The line stuck to the
comedian. <o:p></o:p></div>
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33. “I
disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say
it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Voltaire
often gets the credit for something his biographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, came
up with as an illustration of his beliefs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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34. “A
billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real
money.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Senator
Everett Dirksen occasionally uttered the “billion here, billion there” part.”
But the rest was conjured up by a newspaper reporter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE
WRONG WORDS IN THE WRONG MOUTH:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Among famous misquotes, the most
remarkable tend to be the ones that have become attached to certain icons as
classic catch-phrases yet, in reality, were never uttered at all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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35. “Elementary,
my dear Watson.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Never
in Arthur Conan Doyle’s four novels and 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes
did the famed detective ever once utter those words in that order. He said,
“Elementary.” And he said, “My dear Watson.” But never together until a P.G.
Wodehouse story published in book form in 1915. The phrase was only later made
famous as a Holmes line by actor Basil Rathbone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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36. “On
the whole, I would rather be in Philadelphia.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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A
1925 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanity Fair</i> presented a
group of artists supposedly writing their own epitaphs. Fields’s was: “Here
lies W.C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.” And he may not
have written the epitaph at all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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37. “You
dirty rat! You killed my brother!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A
staple of any James Cagney impression, but—although he came close a couple of
times—the actor never hissed this in any of his films. <o:p></o:p></div>
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38. “Me
Tarzan, you Jane.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
most famous Tarzan , swimmer-turned-actor Johnny Weismuller, never once
communicated this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">39. </span>“Play it again, Sam.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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An
iconic line from perhaps the most classic film. But it didn’t happen. In Casablanca,
Ingrid Bergman said, “Play it once, Sam, for old times’ sake, play ‘As Time
Goes By.’” And Humphrey Bogart said, “You played it for her, you can play it
for me… If she can stand to listen to it, I can. Play it.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">40. </span>“Beam me up, Scotty!<o:p></o:p></div>
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William Shatner’s Captain Kirk
traveled by transporter all the time in “Star Trek.” He said, “Energize.” He
said, “Beam me aboard.” He said, “Two to beam up.” But he never made this
specific request. Yet James Doohan, who played Scotty, used it as the title of
his autobiography.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Leonard McCoy made this a “Star
Trek” staple—the “I’m a doctor” part. But he never said, “Damn it.” Not once.
The closest anyone came to swearing in the original series was when Captain
Kirk said, “Let’s get the hell out of here.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve actually said this to my son
Luke. But the correct quote is: “No. I am your father.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dirty Harry</i>, Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Callahan actually said, “I know
what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots, or only five? Well, to tell you
the truth, is all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But, being as
this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow
your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel
lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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44. “The
British are coming!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
colonists themselves were still British, so it’s likely that Revere’s warning
was something along the lines of: “The regulars are coming!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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45. “I
cannot tell a lie.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Forever
attributed to young George Washington, it was most likely a biographer’s lie. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I stay up late. That’s just how my
biological clock rolls. But it’s also because I’m a writer, and I traffic in
ideas, and the middle of the night is when everyone else asleep. So all the
ideas are hanging out there, ripe for the picking.</div>
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I’ve been a fulltime freelancer
and author for nearly a quarter-century, since I was 23 years old. I write for
a living. But for some reason, people often think that all I do is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">write</i>. When really, what I mostly do is
think. I imagine. I wonder. I research. I query. I pitch. Then I write it up.
But the pursuit of the idea is the large part of the adventure. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love the idea of ideas—the fact
that it’s possible to summon some sort of creative notion that hasn’t
necessarily been conjured before. To be honest, I tend to enjoy the imagining
even more than the writing. But if my file cabinets brimming with past and
future (and occasionally rejected) story ideas are any indication, finding
subject matter is the easiest part of my job. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But rather than telling you that,
I’ll just show you—by exploring the articles that I have written for a single
magazine and musing on the origins of many of them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have long been listed as a
contributing editor for my college publication—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cornell Alumni Magazine</i>. Basically, that means I write for them so
often that they kindly added my name to the masthead. I have always welcomed the
opportunity to write for CAM because it’s not a magazine about sports or
quilting or parenting. It’s about anything. A story simply need be compelling
and have some attachment to the university—a place that has churned out
thousands of fascinating graduates over the years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So how have I found suitable story
ideas? You name it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wrote a story about actress Jane
Lynch because I came across a mention of her in the Class Notes section of the
magazine. Same goes for Steve Mazlin, a fellow who built a radio telescope in
his backyard. And longtime Sesame Street writer Belinda Ward (yes, I got to
meet Oscar the Grouch). And Gordon Harris, a man who raises miniature horses in
Ohio. Trust me, you haven’t lived until you’ve stood in a pasture while dozens
of mini horses gallop around you—it’s as adorable as it sounds). <o:p></o:p></div>
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On occasion, I’ll encounter
something in a book I’m reading, and it will turn into a feature. That’s how I
first became aware of Carolyn Goodman, mother of Andrew Goodman, one of the
three civil rights volunteers infamously murdered in Mississippi in 1964. I
soon discovered Carolyn’s amazing life story and wrote a feature about her for
CAM. Carolyn then asked me to co-author her memoirs, which eventually led to
publication of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/my-mantelpiece.html" target="_blank">My Mantelpiece</a></i> from
Why Not Books. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I wrote a feature about tennis
champion Bill Larned because I noticed his name in the fine print as I leafed
through a sports encyclopedia while sitting on the john. There he was, listed
as the 1892 intercollegiate tennis champion. Once I escaped the bathroom, I did
more research and discovered that he later won seven national titles and was
among the ten best players in the world 19 times over the next 20 years. Then I
wondered: What happened in that one year—1898, in the middle of his career—when
he wasn’t ranked? Well, it turns out that was the year when he was one of Teddy
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. Suddenly, it was a great, great story. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But it all started on the john. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve found lots of stories by becoming
one with Google. I’ll search for, say, “Cornell graduate September 11<sup>th</sup>”
and come up with the remarkable story of Chris Ganci, who became a firefighter
after his father, Peter Ganci, was the highest-ranking firefighter to perish on
9/11. I’d search for “Cornell University comedian” and discover Negin Farsad, who
uses her comedy to further audiences’ understanding of her Muslim heritage.
When the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Titanic was approaching a few
years ago, I Googled “Cornell alumnus Titanic” and found four graduates who
were aboard the ill-fated ship. Two of them survived. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes the ideas come from
within—via some old-fashioned creative curiosity. I wondered, for instance: How
many credits of classes can I squeeze into one day? So I returned to college
and attended ten classes (29 credits) from dawn to dusk. I’ve written stories
asking: Whatever happened to the letter sweater? How often is Iowa’s Cornell
College confused with Cornell University? How many Cornell graduates have
reached age 100?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does the Class of
2000 compare with the Class of 1900? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, on occasion, my own
experiences have led to stories—whether it was my stint as a contestant on “Who
Wants to be a Millionaire” way back in 2000 or the time that a Deadhead pal of
mine informed me that a 1977 concert at Cornell ranks as perhaps the Grateful
Dead’s most legendary show. I wrote up a story called “The Legend of 5-8-77.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Much more profoundly, I drew upon my
memories of a woman named Judy Mozersky. Judy was 19 in 1989 when she suffered
a severe brainstem stroke. Her condition, unchanged for a quarter-century, is
known as “locked in.” She is completely cognitively aware, but she cannot move
a muscle. She communicates through eye movements and even “dictated” a brief
book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Locked In</i>, about her early
experiences. I’ve revisited her story twice for the CAM. She is the most
inspiring person I’ve ever met, and they may be the best magazine pieces I’ve
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So my job—the job of most writers,
really— is simply to remain alert and creative, and grab ideas when they arrive
from whatever source. Then I just turn those ideas into compelling stories. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That process led to the following
list: 54 profiles (selectively chosen from many more) that I’ve contributed to that
one publication. The point is to convey that successful freelancing is as much
about the what you write about as about the words themselves. I’ve tried to
categorize them a bit, but I hope you can appreciate the diversity—stories
about everyone from a Supreme Court chief justice to a sex educator to a serial
killer:<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. Los
Angeles Galaxy coaches Bruce Arena and Dave Sarachan<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. Jon Daniels, general manager of the Texas Rangers<o:p></o:p></div>
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11. Jacksonville Jaguars executive Michael Huyghue<o:p></o:p></div>
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12. Bucky Gunts, head of Olympic Production for NBC Sports<o:p></o:p></div>
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13. ESPN reporter Jeremy Schaap<o:p></o:p></div>
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14. Ultramarathoner Mike Trevino<o:p></o:p></div>
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15. NFL rookies Seth Payne and Chad Levitt<o:p></o:p></div>
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16. Soccer-style placekicking pioneer Pete Gogolak <o:p></o:p></div>
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17. Golf architect Robert Trent Jones<o:p></o:p></div>
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23. World War II hero Matt Urban<o:p></o:p></div>
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24. World War II code-cracker William Friedman<o:p></o:p></div>
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in” survivor Judy Mozersky<o:p></o:p></div>
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28. Transgender politician Dana Beyer<o:p></o:p></div>
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30. Mathematician and civil rights martyr Lee Lorch<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. “Sesame Street” writer Belinda Ward<o:p></o:p></div>
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32. Howard Hughes autobiography hoaxster Clifford Irving<o:p></o:p></div>
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33. Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Sears (the first
African-American female) <o:p></o:p></div>
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34. (Former) NBC and ABC television presidents Kevin Reilly and Steve
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46. Bodybuilder Jean Gutierrez<o:p></o:p></div>
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Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
<a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/" target="_blank">Sleeping Bear Press</a> has published hundreds of titles since releasing its first
children’s book in 1998. It may be best known for its excellent (and seemingly
endless) series of alphabet picture books, all featuring an innovative
two-tiered format. That means that each letter of the alphabet contains three
elements—a beautiful illustration, a short poem (for young readers) and a more
extensive sidebar (for older readers). So kids can grow with the books while
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Sleeping Bear has published an
alphabet book for each state—from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A is
for Arches: A Utah Alphabet </i>to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Y is
for Yellowhammer: An Alabama Alphabet</i>. There are also alphabet books
devoted to Canadian provinces (including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">S
is for Spirit Bear: A British Columbia Alphabet</i>) and cities (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">W is for Windy City: A Chicago Alphabet</i>)
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">countries </i>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">K is for Kabuki: A Japan Alphabet</i>). <o:p></o:p></div>
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But wait, there’s more. Much more.
Sleeping Bear is to alphabet books what Pooh-Bear is to honey. You can never
get enough, and suddenly you’ll look on a forgotten shelf and find an
unexpected gem. The subject matter ranges from ancient Rome (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">G is for Gladiator</i>) to writing (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">S is for Story</i>) to fishing (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">H is for Hook</i>) to Halloween (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">J is for Jack-O’-Lantern</i>). <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m proud to have contributed nine
sports-themed alphabet books to the mix—covering everything from baseball and
football to soccer and stock car racing (my latest is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4v8P_6gD0" target="_blank">W is for Wrigley: The Friendly Confines Alphabet</a></i>). I’m also proud
of the award-winning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585364282?ie=UTF8&tag=bradherzog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1585364282" target="_blank">S is for Save the Planet: A How-to-be Green Alphabet</a>. </i>But you could build a library of
Sleeping Bear alphabet books (everything from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A is for Airplane </i>to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Z is for
Zookeeper</i>), read them all, and find that you’ve ingested a fine education
about almost everything. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are 75 alphabet books,
separated into categories—and this doesn’t even include any of the 50 state
books or 11 Canadian province and territory books or, for that matter, any of
the dozens of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">counting</i> books that
Sleeping Bear Press has produced. Still, it’s quite a list: <o:p></o:p></div>
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ART, LITERATURE, AND MUSIC<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext;">1. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11280">B is for Bookworm: A Library Alphabet</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext;">2. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11490">F is for Friendship: A Quilt Alphabet</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext;">3. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11362">M is for Masterpiece: An Art Alphabet</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext;">4. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11404">M is for Melody: A Music Alphabet</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext;">5. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11338">R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext;">6. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11442">S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">8. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11420">A is for Amazing Moments: A Sports
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">10. <a href="http://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11366">A is for Axel: An Ice Skating
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Whenever I have bouts of cynicism,
periods of pervasive pessimism—and they’re not infrequent—I try to remedy the
situation with occasional travel. That may mean physical forays into the
American outback (setting a course for, say, Utopia, Texas) or fantastical
forays into the literary realm (“After all, tomorrow is another day”).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes, it’s a combination of
the two. My first travel memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.bradherzog.com/states-of-mind.html" target="_blank">States of Mind</a></i>, chronicled a 314-day cross-country excursion in 1995-96 that
essentially was a cynical Generation Xer’s attempt to find out if that cynicism
was justified—did I reflect the state of the union, or merely misjudge it? So I
turned that figurative notion into a literal search for virtue in America – in
places like Pride (Alabama), Justice (West Virginia), Honor (Michigan) and Wisdom
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So it was a hopeful expedition. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I would say most literary
travelers allow sanguinity to ride shotgun. As Mark Twain once declared,
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” We journey in
search of something better. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, most of us do. Then there’s
Henry Miller.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He’s best known toeing the
obscenity/literary line in novels like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tropic
of Cancer</i>, but he also wrote a cross-country travel memoir. And it was
about as hopeful as a pothole. It was brimming with condescension and despair,
grumpiness and gloom. “One’s destination is never a place,” he wrote, “but a
new way of looking at things.” Yet he seemed to pack a suitcase full of old
biases and mean-spirited generalities, which colored his view of the American
scene (after a long stay in Europe) during one cross-country trip in 1940-41.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He called his travel memoir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve selected 28 cynical
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1. “A
great change had come over America… Everything was cock-eyed and getting more
and more so. Maybe we would end up on all fours, gibbering like baboons.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. “The lack of resilience, the feeling of hopelessness, the resignation,
the skepticism, the defeatism—I could scarcely believe my ears at first. And
over it all that veneer of fatuous optimism—only now decidedly cracked.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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3. “I, on the other hand, always expect angels to pee in my beer.”</div>
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4. “New Hope was to be our first stop… New Hope is one of America’s art
colonies. I have a vivid recollection of my state of mind on leaving the place.
It framed itself thus: no hope for the artist!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. “America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral
leper, an economic misfit, a social liability.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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6. “I had to travel about ten thousand miles before receiving the
inspiration to write a single line. Everything worth saying about the American
way of life I could have put in thirty pages.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Boston: “a vast jumbled waste created by pre-human or sub-human monsters
in a delirium of greed.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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8. St. Louis: “a foul, stinking corpse rising up from the plain.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. New York: “the most horrible place on God’s earth.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. “New Orleans worships the past, but it watches impassively as the
barbarians of the future bury the past cynically and ruthlessly.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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11. “The land of opportunity has become the land of senseless sweat and
struggle.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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12. “But there are kinds and degrees of suffering; the worst, in my opinion,
is the sort one encounters in the very heart of progress.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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13. “…the bitterness in the heart, the skepticism, the cynicism, the
emptiness, the sterility, the despair, the hopelessness which is eating up the
American worker.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its
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17. “Everything that was of beauty, significance or promise has been
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18. “What would happen if the war suddenly stopped I can’t imagine. There
would be a lot of broken hearts. Maybe another crisis. People wouldn’t know
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19. “The most terrible thing about America is that there is no escape from
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23. “America is a vast place, and I doubt if any man knows it thoroughly.
It’s possible too to live in a place and not know anything about it, because
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24. “A swiftly decaying people, almost one-third of them pauperized, the more
intelligent and affluent ones practicing race suicide, the underdogs becoming
more and more unruly, more criminal-minded, more degenerate and degraded in
every way. A handful of reckless, ambitious politicians trying to convince the
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25. “Go West, young man! they used to say. Today we have to say: Shoot
yourself, young man, there is no hope for you!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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28. “Sometimes
I think that the best books on America are the imaginary ones written by those
who have never seen the country.” <o:p></o:p></div>
Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-92128991691180908612015-09-16T06:30:00.000-07:002018-02-16T22:20:58.810-08:0055 NUGGETS OF TRIVIA FROM THE SPORTS 100<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
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My favorite nonfiction books are
the ones that examine oft-mined subjects from a new point of view, whether that
means Malcolm Gladwell’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Tipping
Point</i> or Jim Bouton’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ball Four</i>.
So early in my career, I wrote one of my own. Twenty years ago, in 1995, I produced
a book called <a href="http://www.bradherzog.com/sports-100.html" target="_blank">THE SPORTS 100,</a> published by Macmillan. It was a ranking and
profile of the one hundred most important people in American sports history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The book judges influence, not <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">athletic
prowess. If all you can say about someone was that he was the best quarterback
or hit this many home runs or won that many U.S. Open titles, that isn’t
enough. There are too many stars in the world of sports to have included people
for star power alone. You won’t find Ted Williams or Joe Montana or Steffi Graf.
But you will find jump shot pioneer Hank Luisetti and vilified baseball owner
Walter O’Malley and influential bookmaker Charles McNeil. It is an attempt to
show that there are relative unknowns who left more of an imprint than a great
many legends.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
aim of <i>The Sports 100 </i>is to put the games into historical
perspective, to show how its cultural influence often manifests itself in a
handful of significant individuals—from Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson to Billie
Jean King and Arthur Ashe. The book also highlights the many cases in which one
person was largely responsible for introducing an eventually monumental element
of sports—be it free agency, the point spread, the minor league farm system, or
the forward pass. In fact, it is not only a study of 100 remarkable people, but
also of 100 components of sport’s evolution. It is as much a history of the
games as a profile of the participants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the end, the list is as diverse as sport itself. There are athletes and
innovators, activists and academics, executives and inventors, journalists and
judges, agents and outcasts, pioneers, producers, promoters and presidents—all
of whom made a lasting impact, in one way or another, on American athletics. Of
course, readers were bound to disagree with many of the selections and
omissions. But like the old argument about New York’s greatest centerfielder,
it’s all a matter of perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfortunately,
the book is long out of print. If you want a copy, you’ll just have to contact
me personally. And if you want some interesting bits of trivia that I
discovered along the way, well, there’s plenty of that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After
all, my hope was to provide new information to even the already knowledgeable
sports fan. And that included me. So here follows a list—not a list of the 100
figures ranked in the book; for that you can go <u>here</u>. This is a list of 55
fascinating facts (about 55 figures profiled) that I encountered along the way:
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1. In his
first major league appearance in 1947, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jackie
Robinson</b> went 0-for-3. But in his first <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">minor
</i>league appearance a year earlier with the Montreal Royals, he collected
four hits (including a home run), four runs, three RBI and two stolen bases.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2. The
original Cassius Marcellus Clay was a southern abolitionist during the 1800s,
loud and fearless. Ironically, many decades later, a brash boxer named Cassius
Marcellus Clay discarded what he felt was his slave name and called himself <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Muhammad Ali</b>.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">3.</span><b style="text-align: center;"> Babe Ruth’s</b><span style="text-align: center;"> record of 29 consecutive
shutout innings as a </span><i style="text-align: center;">pitcher</i><span style="text-align: center;"> in the
World Series lasted longer than his mark of 60 home runs hit in a single
season.</span></div>
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4. When <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">James Naismith</b> invented
basketball as a 30-year-old P.E. instructor at the School for Christian Workers
in Springfield, MA, the 18 men who played the first game were studying to be
YMCA general secretaries. Final score of the first game: 1-0. <o:p></o:p></div>
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5. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Albert Spalding</b>, the late 19<sup>th</sup>
century athlete-owner-businessman perhaps most responsible for spreading sports
in America, once organized a world baseball tour that included games played at
the Pyramids in Egypt. <o:p></o:p></div>
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6.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Walter Camp</b>, the Yale coach
most responsible for developing modern football rules, came up with such basic
innovations as 11 players to a side, the line of scrimmage, and the set of
downs. He also coined the term “All-America.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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7. The iconic 1938 boxing rematch between African-American hero <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joe Louis</b> and Nazi Germany hero Max
Schmeling lasted all of 124 seconds. Louis knocked him out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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8. The famous 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” in which tennis star <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Billie Jean King</b> outplayed outspoken
chauvinist Bobby Riggs was watched by a television audience of more than 50
million people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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9. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Roone Arledge</b> of ABC sports,
the man most responsible for modern sports television’s impact, once won an
Emmy award for producing a puppet show. <o:p></o:p></div>
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10.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Branch Rickey</b>, the Brooklyn
Dodgers president who signed Jackie Robinson, was also almost single-handedly
responsible for designing the minor league farm system. <o:p></o:p></div>
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11. When <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marvin Miller</b> took over
as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players’ Association in
1966, the combined payroll of all major league clubs that year was less than
the combined salary of Roger Clemens and Dwight Gooden a generation later. <o:p></o:p></div>
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12. Early 20<sup>th</sup> century heavyweight boxing champion <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jack Johnson</b>, an outspoken
African-American in an era of widespread lynchings, was once arrested on a
trumped-up charge of violating the Mann Act, a law passed in 1910 making the
interstate transportation of women for “immoral purposes” illegal. It was meant
to stop organized crime. <o:p></o:p></div>
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13. In 1915, just a few years before <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">George
Halas</b> was one of the key figures in founding what became the National
Football League, he was scheduled to depart on a ship, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eastland</i>, which capsized while docked in Chicago. Nearly 1,000
people died, but Halas missed the boat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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14. As a 5-foot-9 sophomore in high school, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Michael Jordan</b> was cut from his varsity team. <o:p></o:p></div>
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15.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Harry Wright</b> was the manager
of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first traveling all-professional baseball
club in 1869. His team averaged 42 runs per game that season and finished 57-0
against its amateur competition. <o:p></o:p></div>
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16. Nineteenth century bareknuckle brawler <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John L. Sullivan</b>, the first significant mass cultural hero in
American life, once earned 16 times more than the next most highly-paid athlete
in the country. <o:p></o:p></div>
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17.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Amos Alonzo Stagg</b>, credited
with inventing everything from the huddle to the lateral pass in football,
scored his team’s only points in the first-ever public basketball game in 1892.
He lived to be 102, dying in 1965 when Michael Jordan was a toddler. <o:p></o:p></div>
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18, When <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red Grange</b> was hired to
play a series of exhibition football games with the Chicago Bears in 1925, he
was paid $100,000, nearly twice what Babe Ruth was earning at the time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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19. The Duke of Windsor was once asked if he could be any man in the world
other than himself. He replied that he would like to be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arnold Palmer</b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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20. When <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jim Thorpe</b> died in 1953,
he was buried in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, which agreed to change its name to
Jim Thorpe in return for the honor. <o:p></o:p></div>
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21. In 1960, in international voting to determine history’s greatest athlete,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Babe Didrikson Zaharias</b> finished 17<sup>th</sup>,
ahead of men like Joe DiMaggio, Bill Russell, and Ben Hogan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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22. When <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pete Rozelle</b> was named
commissioner of the National Football League in 1960, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Herald Examiner </i>called it “the zaniest act of the
century.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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23. In 1929, golfer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bobby Jones</b>
tied for the lead in the U.S. Open and competed in a 36-hole playoff. He won by
23 strokes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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24. After Notre Dame football coach <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Knute
Rockne</b> died in a plane crash in 1931, more than 100,000 people lined his
funeral route through Chicago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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25.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesse Owens</b> became an American
hero by winning four gold medals in front of Adolph Hitler at the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin, but he was unable to capitalize on it financially. Just
three years later, he filed for bankruptcy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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26. Over just four seasons from 1977-1980, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Earvin “Magic” Johnson</b> won three national titles at three levels—a
high school state basketball championship, the NCAA Tournament with Michigan
State, and the NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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27.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Larry Bird’s</b> father was an
alcoholic laborer who killed himself soon after Bird enrolled at Indiana
University in 1974. Bird lasted just a few weeks with Indiana coach Bobby
Knight before transferring to Indiana State. <o:p></o:p></div>
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28. Upon his death in 1993, transcendent tennis star <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arthur Ashe</b> was the first person to lie in state in the Virginia
Governor’s Mansion since Civil War General Stonewall Jackson. <o:p></o:p></div>
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29. Playing against his peers in a hockey league as a 10-year-old, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wayne Gretzky</b> scored 378 goals in 69
games—238 more goals than anyone else<o:p></o:p></div>
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30. The title of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Joe Namath’s </b>autobiography,
written with Dick Schaap: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Can’t Wait
Until Tomorrow… ‘Cause I Get Better-looking Every Day</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bill Russell</b>, considered by
some to be the greatest basketball player—and certainly the greatest defensive
basketball player—in history, refused to show up for his induction into the
Basketball Hall of Fame. <o:p></o:p></div>
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32.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jim Creighton</b>, the first paid
baseball player (in 1860) and a pitcher who transformed the game by making the
position adversarial to the batter, died hitting a home run. He swung, ruptured
his spleen, and died four days later at the age of 21.<o:p></o:p></div>
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33. Seven-time national tennis champion <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bill
Tilden</b> was a pedophile. He traveled with hand-picked ball boys and was
twice sentenced to prison for making advances on teenagers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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34. After baseball owner <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Roy Hofheinz</b>
constructed the game-changing Houston Astrodome in 1966, the New York Yankees
appeared in the first exhibition game. Mickey Mantle hit the first home run. <o:p></o:p></div>
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35. Hall of Famer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Satchel Paige</b>
pitched three shutout innings in the major leagues at the age of 59. <o:p></o:p></div>
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36. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wilma Rudolph</b> was the 20<sup>th</sup>
of 22 children produced by her railroad porter father in two marriages. As a
child, she survived scarlet fever, double pneumonia and polio. <o:p></o:p></div>
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37.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jack Nicklaus </b>won a record 18
major professional championships in his illustrious golf career. He finished
second 19 times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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38.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Bill Rasmussen’s</b> creation, a
Connecticut cable network originally known as the E.S.P. Network (now globally
known as ESPN), launched on September 7, 1979. The first live event was the
Professional Softball World Series. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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39.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Howie Morenz</b>, the “Babe Ruth
of hockey,” broke his leg during an NHL game in 1937, soon grew despondent,
suffered a nervous breakdown, then died of a heart attack at the age of 35. <o:p></o:p></div>
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40. Nike CEO <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil Knight</b> asked an
art student named Carolyn Davidson to design a logo for his fledgling sneaker
brand. She designed the Nike “swoosh.” She was paid $35 (although Knight later
graciously gave her significant stock options). <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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41. African-American tennis pioneer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Althea
Gibson</b> once recorded an album and sang on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” She later
turned to golf, becoming the first black woman to earn her LPGA player’s card. <o:p></o:p></div>
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42. Harlem Globetrotters founder <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Abe
Saperstein</b> stood 5-foot-3. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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43.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Vince Lombardi</b> DID NOT coin
the phrase “winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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44.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Bill Veeck</b>, iconic owner of
the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, began his career working as an
assistant for his father, who was president of the Chicago Cubs. It was the
younger Veeck who planted the ivy on Wrigley’s outfield walls. <o:p></o:p></div>
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45.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Howard Cosell</b> graduated from
NYU law school and began his career by opening a labor law practice in New York
City.</div>
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46. After <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Francis Ouimet</b> and his
10-year-old caddie Eddie Lowery shocked the world and transformed American golf
by winning the 1913 U.S. Open (as told in my 2013 picture book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Francis and Eddie</i>), Ouimet won the U.S.
Amateur championship the very next year. <o:p></o:p></div>
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47. As a child, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Martina Navrtilova</b>
wasn’t told that her estranged father had committed suicide. She didn’t find
out until she was 24 years old. <o:p></o:p></div>
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48.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Alexander Cartwright</b>, not
Abner Doubleday, deserves most of the credit for inventing baseball as we know
it—as the leader of the New York Knickerbockers club in 1845. As for Doubleday,
he never even witnessed a baseball game. <o:p></o:p></div>
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49. After <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Roberto Clemente</b>
perished in a plane crash while bringing supplies to earthquake-ravaged
Nicaragua on New Year’s Eve 1972, the Coast guard found the pilot’s remains,
but never Clemente’s. <o:p></o:p></div>
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50. Oakland A’s owner <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charlie Finley</b>
(who once hung up on me when I tried to interview him) introduced color
uniforms, pushed through acceptance of the designated hitter, and tried to have
sheep graze beyond the outfield fence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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51.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Danny Biasone</b>, inventor of
basketball’s 24-second shot clock, purchased his first professional basketball
team for $1,000 in 1946. <o:p></o:p></div>
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52. Figure skating icon<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Sonja Henie</b>
reportedly swore like a truck driver.</div>
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53.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Richard Petty</b> won 200 races as
the King of NASCAR, nearly twice as many as anyone else. Along the way, he
broke the record held by his father, Lee Petty (54). <o:p></o:p></div>
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54. Former Purdue basketball star and longtime UCLA coach <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Wooden</b> is the only man to be
enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player and a coach.<br />
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In the pantheon of the
profound—Churchill and FDR, Shakespeare and Twain, even Will Rogers and Woody
Allen (if you prefer mirth while musing), we at the <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/blog-the-why-not-100.html" target="_blank">Why Not 100</a> think Dr. Seuss
belongs. Really. He did it through allegory and whimsy, substituting edifying
imagination for speechifying exhortations, replacing rim-shot one-liners with
Once-lers and wonders. Indeed, many of his most famous passages are designed
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Most of them are life-affirming
perspectives—every person counts and should try new things and can save the world
one speck or tree at a time. They’re the kind of reminders that lodge firmly in
a child’s psyche—brain-remainers, he might call them. Sometimes, too, Seuss
tossed in some gentle barbs, kindly poking fun at the excesses of authority or
income disparity or the diffusion of responsibility. And once in a while, he
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1. “You
have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.” (<i>Oh, The
Places You’ll Go!)<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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2. “Don’t give up! I believe in you all. A person’s a person, no matter how
small!” (<i>Horton Hears a Who</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. “In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell
if I stopped with a Z. I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends. My
alphabet starts where your alphabet ends.” (<i>On
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4. “UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get
better. It’s not.” (The <i>Lorax</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. “You do not like them. So you say.
Try them! Try them! And you may.” (<i>Green
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7. “I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I’m asking
you, sir, at the top of my lungs…” (<i>The
Lorax</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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8. “It was exactly the same view that King Derwin saw from his balcony, but
Bartholomew saw it backwards. It was a mighty view, but it made Bartholomew
Cubbins feel mighty small.” (<i>The 500 Hats
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said Yertle, ‘of all that I see. But I don’t see enough. That’s the trouble
with me.</span> <span style="background: white;">With this stone for a throne, I look down on my pond,
but I cannot look down on the places beyond.” (<i>Yertle the Turtle</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10. “A Wasn’t has no fun at all. No, he doesn’t. A Wasn’t just isn’t. He just
isn’t present. But you… You ARE YOU! And now isn’t that pleasant.” (<i>Happy Birthday to You</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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McBean was quite wrong. I'm quite happy
to say that the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they
decided that Sneetches are Sneetches, and no kind of Sneetch is the best on the
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12. “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It could be
that his head wasn't screwed on quite right. It could be, perhaps, that his
shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all may have
been that his heart was two sizes too small.” (<i>How the Grinch Stole Christmas</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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13. “Marco, keep your eyelids up. And see what you can see.” (<i>And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14. You outghta be
thankful. A whole heaping lot. For all the people and places you’re lucky
you’re not!” (<i>Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky
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opened wide. And the Mayor stepped inside. At meetings and greetings there was
none to compare. He was best at long speeches, chock-full of hot air!” (<i>Daisy-Head Mayzie</i>)<i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">16. “And today the
great Yertle, that Marvelous he, is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course… all the turtles are free as turtles and, maybe, all
creatures should be.” (<i>Yertle the Turtle</i>)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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17. “<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Then the Grinch
thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought,
"doesn't come from a store. “Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little
bit more!" (<i>How the Grinch Stole
Christmas</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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18. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you
learn, the more places you’ll go.” <i>(I Can
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19. “My father can read big words,
too. Like CONSTANTINOPLE and TIMBUKTU.” (<i>Hop
on Pop</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. “So all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we did not like it.
Not one little bit.” (<i>The Cat in the Hat</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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21. “And I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from
ahead and some come from behind.” (<i>I Had
Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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22. “We’ve GOT to make noises in
greater amounts! So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!” (<i>Horton Hears a Who</i>)</div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">23. “I’m afraid that
<i>some</i>times you’ll play lonely games
too. Games you can’t win ‘cause you’ll play against you.”</span> (<i>Oh, The Places You’ll Go!)<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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24. “And he called to the pests on his
horns as he threw ‘em. You wanted my horns, well you’re quite welcome to ‘em.”
(<i>Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose</i>)<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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25. “And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right
along. <i>You’ll </i>start happening too.” (<i>Oh, The Places You’ll Go!)</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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26. “I'm Finagle the Agent. You've
heard of me, I'm sure. I represent young what's-his-name, and others, now on
tour.” (<i>Daisy-Head Mayzie</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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27. “I know it is wet. And the sun is not sunny. But we can have fun. Lots of
good fun that is funny!” (<i>The Cat in the
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28. “My trouble was I had a mind. But I couldn’t make it up.” (<i>Hunches in Bunches</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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29. “Now the Principal, good Mr. Gregory Grumm,
was a very nice man, just as smart as they come. He knew more than anyone else
in this nation. About long division and multiplication.” (<i>Daisy-Head Mayzie</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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30. “Stop
telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.” (<i>And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry
Street</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. “Should we tell her about it? Now, what SHOULD we do? Well… What would
you do if your mother asked YOU?” (<i>The
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32. “Business is business. And business must grow, regardless of crummies in
tummies, you know.” (<i>The Lorax</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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33. “And since that day in Katzen-stein all cats have been more grown-up.
They’re all more demo-catic because each cat holds his own up.” (<i>King Looie Katz</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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34. “Think left and think right. Think low and think high. Oh the THINKS you
can think up if only you try.” (<i>Oh, The
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35. “But neither Bartholomew
Cubbins, nor King Derwin himself, nor anyone else in the Kingdom of Didd could
ever explain how the strange thing had happened. They only could say it just
“happened to happen” and was not very likely to happen again.” (<i>The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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36. “Well, you know about daisies. When love is
in doubt, the job of a daisy is, Try and Find Out!” (<i>Daisy-Head Mayzie</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">37. “And will you
succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.). KID, YOU’LL
MOVE MOUNTAINS!” </span>(<i>Oh, The Places
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When my son Luke started reading in
earnest—that is, when he found that he had made his way through enough
contemporary fantasy novels to fill the libraries of Rivendell and Hogwarts—I
began to suggest some older classics. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He had already read the three
books in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lord of the Rings</i>
trilogy, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Two Towers</i>,
which was his favorite one. How about Jules Verne, I said. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Around the World in Eighty Days</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</i>. Then I got him hooked on
Sherlock Holmes, starting with Arthur Conan Doyle’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sign of Four</i>. For good measure, I led him to Agatha Christie’s
classic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And Then There Were None</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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See a pattern? We at the <a href="http://thewhynot100.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Why Not100</a> obviously treasure the written word, but there sure are a lot of classics
with numbers in the title, whether it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1984</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seven Years in Tibet</i>, or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">North Dallas Forty</i>. Hence, the following
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Only once, as you’ll see, do we
reference Janet Evanovich, who has written twenty numbered Stephanie Plum
mysteries—from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One for the Money, Two for
the Dough, </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Three to Get Deadly </i>to
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Explosive Eighteen, Notorious Nineteen, </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Takedown Twenty.</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest</i> (Ken
Kesey)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles
Dickens)</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3. The Three Musketeers</i> (Alexandre
Dumas)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">4. The Sign of the Four</i> (Arthur
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">7. Seven Years in Tibet</i> (Heinrich
Harrer)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">8. The Eight</i> (Katherine Neville)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">9. Nine Lives to Die</i> (Rita Mae
Brown)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">10. Ten Little Ladybugs</i> (Melanie
Gerth)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">11. Eleven Birthdays</i> (Wendy Mass)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12. Twelve Years a Slave </i>(Solomon
Northup)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">13. Thirteen Reasons Why</i> (Jay
Asher) </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">14. Fourteen</i> (Peter Clines)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">15. Fifteen Minutes </i>(Karen
Kingsbury)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17. At Seventeen</i> (Gerri Hill)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">19. Nineteen Minutes</i> (Jodi Picoult)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">20. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea </i>(Jules Verne)</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">21. The Twenty-One Balloons </i>(William
Pene du Bois)</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">23. Twenty-Three Tales </i>(Leo
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">24. The Twenty-Four Days Before
Christmas </i>(Madeleine L’Engle)<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Tamara Duricka Johnson)</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Cotterill)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Greanias)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sansom)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brennan)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">38. Thirty-Eight Nooses </i>(Scott W.
Berg)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;">
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Buchan)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Olivia Adams)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;">
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Gomez)</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">47. Forty-Seven Kisses </i>(Victoria
Grant)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">49. The Crying of Lot 49 </i>(Thomas
Pynchon)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Danielewski)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Plunkett)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">52. Fifty-Two Pickup </i>(Elmore
Leonard)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">54. Fifty-Four </i>(Wu Ming)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">55. Fifty-Five Graves</i> (Robert P.
Maroney)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">56. Fifty-Six Men </i>(Fred Placke)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">57. The Fifty-Seven Lives of Alex
Wayfare </i>(M.G. Buehrlen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">58. The Folks at Fifty-Eight </i>(Michael
Patrick Clark)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">59. Fifty-Nine in ’84 </i>(Edward
Achorn)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">60. The House of Sixty Fathers </i>(Meindert
DeJong)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">62. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Highway 62 Revisited </i>(Matt
Maxwell)</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">64. The Sixty-Four Sonnets </i>(John
Keats)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">65. The Sixty-Five Years of Washington </i>(Juan
Jose Saer)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">66. Sixty-Six Chances</i> (Nick Buxton)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">67. Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden
Saints </i>(Jack Micheline)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">68. The Sixty-Eight Rooms</i> (Marianne
Malone)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">69. Sixty-Nine Inches and Rising</i>
(Rebecca Steinbeck)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">70. The Book of Seventy</i> (Alicia
Suskin Ostriker)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">71. Seventy-One Days: The Media Assault
on Obama</i> (Michael Jason Overstreet)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">72. Seventy-Two Hour Hold </i>(Bebe
Moore Campbell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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cummings)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">74. Seventy-Four Seaside Avenue </i>(Debbie
Macomber)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tale </i>(Michael Marzi)</div>
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Redman)</div>
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(Dean Koontz)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">78. Seventy-Eight Days</i> (Ciara
Howard)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robbins)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">80. Around the World in Eighty Days</i>
(Jules Verne)</div>
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(Shane Windham)</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">83. Eighty-Three Lost Sheep </i>(Gerry
Stoltzfoos and Shawn Smucker)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">86. 86’d </i>(Dan Fante)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">87. The Ghosts on 87<sup>th</sup> Lane </i>(M.L.
Woelm)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">88. Eighty-Eight </i>(A.L. McAuley)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">89. Eighty-Nine Pounds </i>(Lauren
Groff)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">90. The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ninety and Nine </i>(Vinny DiGirolamo)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">91. Ninety-One Days</i> (Lindsay
Luterman)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">92. Ninety-Two in the Shade </i>(Thomas
McGuane)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">93. Ninety-Three </i>(Victor Hugo)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">94. Ninety-Four Maidens </i>(Rhonda
Fink-Whitman)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">95. Ninety-Five Theses </i>(Martin
Luther)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Valley Barn Dance </i>(Jason F. Wright)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-74926542304714032552015-08-24T04:30:00.000-07:002018-02-16T22:26:13.594-08:0040 INITIALIZED AUTHORS AND THEIR REAL NAMES<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
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Ever consider that most of us
don’t necessarily know the first name of the authors of such classics as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hobbit</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Chronicles of Narnia</i>,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The
Wizard of Oz</i>,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Curious George, Mary
Poppins, Charlotte’s Web, </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Winnie
the Pooh</i>? Or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catcher in the Rye</i>?
Or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The War of the Worlds</i>? Or, for
that matter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sixth Sense</i>? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter</i> series, too. Joanne Rowling was asked by her publisher
to adopt a more masculine pen name. So she borrowed her grandmother’s name
(Kathleen) and became forever famous as J.K. Rowling. Much the same process
happened with Susan Eloise (better known as S.E.) Hinton, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Outsiders</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So let’s take a tour of initials
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1. J.R.R.
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2. W.E.B. Du Bois (William Edward Burghardt)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. J.K. Rowling (Joanne Kathleen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. C.S. Lewis (Clive Staples)<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. E.B. White (Elwyn Brooks)</div>
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<a name='more'></a> 6. H.G. Wells (Herbert George)<br />
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7. J.D. Salinger (Jerome David)<o:p></o:p></div>
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8. R.L. Stine (Robert Lawrence)<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. H.A. Rey (Hans Augusto)<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. E.E. Cummings (Edward Estlin)<o:p></o:p></div>
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11. A.E. Housman (Alfred Edward)<o:p></o:p></div>
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12. E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan)<o:p></o:p></div>
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13. J.M. Barrie (James Matthew)</div>
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14. P.L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon)<o:p></o:p></div>
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15. V.S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)<o:p></o:p></div>
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16. D.H. Lawrence (David Herbert)<o:p></o:p></div>
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17. G.K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith)<o:p></o:p></div>
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18. E.L. Doctorow (Edgar Lawrence)<o:p></o:p></div>
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19. T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns)<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise)<o:p></o:p></div>
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21. W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh)<o:p></o:p></div>
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22. J.M. Coetzee (John Maxwell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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23. P.G. Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville)<o:p></o:p></div>
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24. H.L. Mencken (Henry Lewis)<o:p></o:p></div>
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25. V.C. Andrews (Cleo Virginia)<o:p></o:p></div>
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26. P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy)<o:p></o:p></div>
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27. A.A. Milne (Alan Alexander)<o:p></o:p></div>
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28. W.B. Yeats (William Butler)</div>
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29. L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud)<o:p></o:p></div>
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30. E.L. Konigsburg (Elaine Lobl)<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. P.J. O’Rourke (Patrick Jake)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I just finished reading a really
unusual book called “S.” It was conceived by J.J. Abrams, the brilliant guy
behind the TV series “Lost,” which I absolutely loved until I absolutely hated
it. (I felt like it was equivalent to reading a 3,000-page Sherlock Holmes
mystery in which none of the clues actually wound up mattering because it was
all a morphine-fueled excursion into another dimension). Abrams is also the guy
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But about the book… “S” is an idea
that would have been immediately discarded as far too expensive and
outside-the-box if it had been proposed by just about anyone less creatively
successful. As Abrams tells it, he was at LAX more than a decade ago, when he
came across an abandoned book signed by a mysterious woman named Janet. It
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The tagline: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace and desire.</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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A young woman picks up a book left
behind by a stranger who, as evidenced by his notes written in the margins, is
entranced by the story (a novel called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ship
of Theseus</i>) and the enigmatic writer (a secretive and mysterious fellow
called V.M. Straka). The readers—a college senior named Jennifer and a
disgraced grad student named Eric—eventually begin to write to each other on
the pages of the book. So it is essentially a double-story-intertwined. One is
a mysterious sort of adventure tale, the other a beguiling sort of love story
in the margins. What a cool idea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is basically two books in one,
and “S” is the title of the meta-concept. Thus it is a long read with a short
title. Add here’s where I finally get to the point of this post—it’s not even
the first book called “S.” John Updike wrote one. And several authors wrote a
collaborative novel of the same name. And Thomas Pynchon wrote “V.” Andy Warhol
wrote “A.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are 33 of the shortest book
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1. “S”
(J.J. Abrams and Mark Dorst)<o:p></o:p></div>
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If the concept is compelling, it’s
even better when you see it. It is a fake artifact—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ship of Theseus </i>looks exactly like a very old library book, printed
in 1949, yellowed pages and all. And inside are not only the writing in the
margins, but also ephemera tucked into the pages—receipts, postcards, notes on
napkins, telegrams. It is, befitting Abrams’s career, more than a book. It is a
production.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. “S.”
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New Englander Sarah P. Worth has become enamored of a
Hindu mystic called the Arhat and goes west to join his ashram in Arizona. There
she struggles to achieve <i>moksha<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(salvation,
release from illusion). “S.” details her adventures in letters and tapes
dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser,
and her psychiatrist—messages cleverly designed to keep her old world in order
while she is creating for herself a new one.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">3. “S.” (seven authors)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Seven fast-paced vignettes
by seven authors about a woman named Suzanne (aka Susie, Suze, Anna), each
chronicling another moment in her life as a globe-trotting seductress. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Publishers Weekly</i> wrote that “</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">this kaleidoscopic chronicle has its own
heady appeal, and the abrupt shifts in voice and style, its very
disjointedness, may be the only way to communicate the unhinging effect of a
woman who lives so completely in the shadow of her own sex appeal.”<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">4. </span>“P” (Andrew Lewis Conn)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One reviewer described this experimental novel as a
“great masturbatory ode to Joyce’s Ulysses.” It tells the story of failed
pornographer Benjamin Seymour and Finn, a ten-year-old runaway girl. Separately
and then together they wander the city, searching for home and family. Taking
place mostly over the course of a single day, the novel telescopes out to
embrace a wide variety of characters and themes. One chapter is written in the
form of newspaper headlines and articles; one chapter is composed of thirteen
vignettes; one chapter is written in question and answer form; one chapter is a
punctuation-less stream of consciousness monologue; and one chapter, the center
of the book and its climax, is written in the form of a full-length screenplay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">5. “J” (Howard Jacobson)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Shortlisted for the 2014 Booker Prize, Jacobson’s novel
about “a world where collective memory has vanished and the past is a dangerous
country” was compared by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday Times</i>
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Brave New World</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1984</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VP9ncpsxUs2SjUFlawoe2XWLYCf_-kwgI7RMHt_tKewrUFpOaTJcCXuE32DVSo72OKDBUKNuMPSeC-h1iiyg5w1vOvHPbflHopUQiyKLUQSyaTJo-wDIqjgHX46mNrSYaARBKL01JkF6/s1600/v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VP9ncpsxUs2SjUFlawoe2XWLYCf_-kwgI7RMHt_tKewrUFpOaTJcCXuE32DVSo72OKDBUKNuMPSeC-h1iiyg5w1vOvHPbflHopUQiyKLUQSyaTJo-wDIqjgHX46mNrSYaARBKL01JkF6/s1600/v.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6. “V” (Thomas Pynchon)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nominated for the National Book Award, it describes the
exploits of discharged<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">U.S. Navy</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">sailor Benny Profane, his reconnection in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">New York</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">with a group of pseudo-</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemianism" title="Bohemianism"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bohemian</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">artists known as the Whole
Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify
and locate a mysterious woman he knows only as "V.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7. “C” (Thomas McCarthy)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Weird: One critic described McCarthy as a “young and
British Thomas Pynchon.” A nominee for the Man Booker Prize, “C” is the story
of Serge Carrefax at the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. His father
experiments with wireless communication while running a school for deaf
children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but
troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that haunts him
as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world, including a German
prison camp and the tombs of Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8. “C” (Maurice Baring)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">First published in 1924, Baring’s most famous book
looks back wistfully to what he calls the “golden swan-song of European life
before the First World War.” The “C” is Caryl Bramsley, an aspiring writer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">9. “G” (John Berger)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In this Booker Prize-winner, protagonist “G” is a young
man who forges an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of
the 20<sup>th</sup> century, revealing an essential loneliness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">10. </span>“A” (Andy Warhol)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Fear and
Loathing in Manhattan</span></i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">? This is an account of the artists and addicts in Warhol’s
world. Created from audiotapes recorded in and around the Factory, it follows
its characters as they travel through the clubs, coffee shops, hospitals, and
whorehouses of 1960s New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">11. “Y” (Brian Vaughn)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The first in a critically acclaimed comic book series.
Yorick is the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills
every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government
agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, he travels
the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on
earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">12. “H” (Elizabeth Shepard)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This lauded novel traces the troubled inner life of a
mentally ill twelve-year-old boy through the letters of his family, father,
camp counselors, and psychiatrist, none of whom offers the solace he finds in a
stuffed toy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">13. “H” (Lin Haire-Sargeant)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The subtitle: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights</i>. The author fills
in the story of the missing years of a primary character from Emily Bronte’s
classic—and a classic by her sister, Charlotte. It blends together Wuthering
Heights and Jane Eyre and solves mysteries in both. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">14. “Q” (Luther Blisset)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to
the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical
Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy known mysteriously as
"Q."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15. “Z” (Vassilis Vasillikos)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A 1966 political thriller that turned into a 1969
Oscar-nominated French-language film, it is a thinly fictionalized account of
the events surrounding the assassination of a Greek politician in 1963. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">16. “W” (Georges Perec)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Alternately titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Memory of Childhood</i>, it is a narrative that reflects Perec's effort to come
to terms with his childhood and his part in the Nazi occupation of France.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">17. “N” (Louis Edwards)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Aimee Dubois answers a phone at 3 a.m. and hears only
two gunshots and footsteps. She investigates. The only real clue is a locket
bearing the letter “N.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">18. “O” (Omari Grandberry)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The memoirs of Grandberry, lead singer of B2K—four
talented friends who eventually succumbed to a rift so deep that three of them
stopped showing up for sold-out shows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">19. “K” (Ronald Hayman)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/K_M_R_Rinehart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/K_M_R_Rinehart.jpg" height="200" width="135" /></a><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A biography of Franz Kafka and how he used literature
as a means of putting himself on trial. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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agency employees as they scheme, lie, and lust their way up (and down) the
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In Beaumont’s follow-up to “E” the staff has moved on
to a sleek and self-consciously hip boutique agency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">They were just kids when they stumbled upon the horror
within their hometown. Now, as adults, none of them can withstand the force
that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without end,
and the evil without a name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A memoir-and-self-help book aimed at provoking the
exploration of life's important questions: What is my purpose? What do I
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the future everyone on earth is connected shortly
after birth to the World Ear and from that point onwards not even speech is
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<span style="background: white; font-family: inherit;">Subtitle: The Daring Flyer's Remarkable Life Story and his Account of the Transatlantic Flight that Shook the World. </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; font-family: inherit;">30. "Lo!" (Charles Fort)</span><br />
<br />
A prade of scientific anomalies, framing the larger anomaly that is human existence.<br />
<br />
31. "Moo" (Jane Smiley)<br />
<br />
Smiley's novel about the devious plots, intrigues, liaisons, and academic oneupsmanship at a Midwestern college called Moo University.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">32. “Zed” (Elizabeth McClung)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Zed is having a bad day. She’s 12 and there’s someone
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It’s not the only book with this title, but this bit of
erotica by Nicholson Baker (who also wrote a superior book called “U and I”) is
famous for being the phone sex novel that Monica Lewinsky gave to Bill
Clinton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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M?” (Agatha Christie)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dark days of World War Two, Christie’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> novel
puts</span> two unlikely espionage agents, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, on the
trail of a pair of Nazi spies who have murdered Britain’s top agent.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-61685669713690907932015-08-09T03:00:00.000-07:002018-02-16T22:36:45.209-08:0038 TOWNS THAT CELEBRATE CLASSIC LITERATURE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">August
9 is National Book Lovers Day. So I’m going to explore that in a literal sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There
used to be a couple of communities in Florida, both of them settled sometime in
the 1850s. One had a few general stores and some other businesses. The other boasted,
at the very least, a post office. The towns were only about two miles apart,
each one’s destiny certainly intertwined with the other’s. But today both are
no more. They’re dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Their
names? Romeo and Juliette. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Okay,
so the spelling of the latter is a bit off. But c’mon, doesn’t that give you
ghost town goosebumps?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
again, there are plenty of Shakespearean places that you can visit during a
cross-country excursion. We can start with a place called, well, Shakespeare, located
in southwestern New Mexico, just south of the city of Lordsburg. That one’s a
ghost town, too—much ado about nothing, one might say. But Shakespeare, New
Mexico, actually offers occasional tours. And, in perhaps the ultimate
anachronism, it has a website (<a href="http://shakespeareghosttown.com/">shakespeareghosttown.com</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Want
to further immortalize the Immortal Bard in the form of an epic road trip? Try
this somewhat manageable itinerary:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1. Bard (California)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2. Romeo (Colorado)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3. Shakespeare (New
Mexico)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4. Desdemona
(Texas)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5. Iago (Texas)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6. Portia
(Arkansas)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">7. Ajax (Louisiana)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">8. Caesar
(Mississippi)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">9. Hector (Alabama)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">10. Isabella
(Georgia)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">11. Bottom (North
Carolina)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">12. Achilles
(Virginia)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">13. Viola (Delaware)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">14. Brutus
(Michigan)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">15. Hamlet (Nebraska)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">16. Paris (Idaho) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Washington)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">But Bill Shakespeare isn’t
the only literary icon whose name graces the tiniest dots on the American map.
Sure, you could visit places like Ulysses (Nebraska) or Frankenstein (Missouri).
Or, for that matter, Reading (Pennsylvania). But there’s a whole journey in
exploring the authors and poets themselves. So we at the </span><a href="http://thewhynot100.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">Why Not 100</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> suggest
packing up a few dozen pieces of classic literature—books like </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;">A Moveable
Feast</i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;">Call of the Wild</i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;">A Tale of Two Cities—</i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to read
while passing through a hamlet bearing the writer’s name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Come to think of it, there is
the germ of an idea for a book in there. I’m thinking along the lines of an
experimental sort of travel memoir in which, for instance, the passages about
the hamlet of Hemingway, South Carolina (“Barbecue Capital of the World”) are written
in Hemingway’s minimalist style. (<i>They fed us country-style pork. It was
barbecued. It was tasty</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Hmmm… meanwhile, here’s a
trip worth taking: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">19. Bronte (Texas)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">20. Milton (Oklahoma)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-64471784681030609862015-07-30T03:30:00.000-07:002015-10-14T21:50:41.986-07:0086 HARRY POTTER INCANTATIONS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy birthday, J.K. Rowling. And
happy birthday, Harry Potter, too. July 31 is the big day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here at the <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/blog-the-why-not-100.html" target="_blank">Why Not 100</a>, we have
our own favorite wizard. It’s Gandalf the Grey. And our favorite boy who
suddenly steps into a world of mystery and adventure? That would be Milo from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Phantom Tollbooth</i>. But we can’t deny
that Harry Potter is a likeable combination of both, and one of the most
compelling aspects of J.K. Rowling’s series is the gradual revelation of the
extent of his powers and the possibilities for wizardry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter </i>books and films contain scores of spells and charms.
Some are merely mentioned, and others are cast nonverbally, but at least 86
actual incantations are revealed. So here they are. Use them at your peril: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1. Accio </i>(summons an object to the caster)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2. Aguamenti</i> (produces a jet of water
from the caster’s charm)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3. Alohomora </i>(open or unlocks
doors)</div>
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<a name='more'></a><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">4. Anapneo</i> (clears the target’s
airway, if blocked)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">5. Aparecium</i> (makes invisible ink
visible)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">6. Avada Kedavra</i> (causes instant,
painless death)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">7. Avis</i> (creates a flock of birds
from the caster’s wand)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">8. Cave Inimicum</i> (strengthens an
enclosure from enemies)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">9. Colloportus</i> (magically locks a
door, preventing it to be opened by Muggle means)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">10. Confringo</i> (causes anything that
the spell meets to explode into flames)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">11. Confundo</i> (causes the victim to
be confused, befuddled and forgetful)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12. Crucio </i>(inflicts unbearable
pain on the recipient)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">13. Defodio</i> (can carve or dig out
materials, including steel and stone)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">14. Deletrius</i> (removes evidence of
previous spells cast by the wand)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">15. Densaugeo</i> (causes the teeth of
the recipient to grow at an alarming rate)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">16. Deprimo</i> (creates a powerful
wind)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17. Descendo</i> (makes things sink or
move down)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">18. Diffindo</i> (cuts or rips objects)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">19. Dissendium</i> (reveals a secret
passage in the hump of the third-floor one-eyed witch statue)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">20. Duro</i> (makes the object hard)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">21. Engorgio</i> (causes objects to
swell in size)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">22. Episkey</i> (heals minor injuries)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">23. Erecto</i> (used to erect
something)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">24. Evanesco</i> (makes the target
vanish)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">25. Expecto Patronum</i> (conjures an
incarnation of the caster’s innermost positive feelings—a Patronus—as a
protector)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">26. Expelliarmus</i> (disarms another
wizard)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">27. Expulso</i> (causes an object to
explode)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">28. Ferula</i> (creates a bandage or
splint)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">29. Finite Incantatem</i> (negates many
spells or the effects of many spells)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">30. Flagrate</i> (allows caster’s wand
to leave fiery marks)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">31. Furnunculus</i> (causes the target
to become covered in boils)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">32. Geminio</i> (creates a duplicate of
any object upon which it is cast)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">33. Glisseo</i> (flattens the steps on
a stairway, creating a ramp or slide)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">34. Homenum Revelio</i> (reveals humans
near the caster)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">35. Impedimenta</i> (generally impedes
the target’s progress toward the caster)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">36. Imperio</i> (causes the victim of
the curse to obey the commands of the caster)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">37. Impervius</i> (makes something repel
outside forces and substances)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">38. Incarcerous</i> (binds someone or
something with ropes)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">39. Incendio</i> (produces fire)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">40. Langlock</i> (glues the victim’s
tongue to the roof of his mouth)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">41. Legilimens</i> (allows the caster
to explore the victim’s emotions, thoughts, and memories)<o:p></o:p></div>
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42. Levicorpus (dangles a victim upside-down by his ankles)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">43. Liberacorpus</i> (counters <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Levicorpus</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">44. Locomotor</i> (causes a named
object to rise in the air and move around at the caster’s will)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">45. Locomotor Mortis</i> (locks a
victim’s legs together)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">46. Lumos</i> (creates a narrow beam of
light that shines from a wand like a torch)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">47. Meteolojinx Recanto</i> (causes
weather effects caused by incantations to cease)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">48. Mobiliarbus</i> (lifts a tree a few
inches off the ground and levitates it to where the wand is pointed)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">49. Mobilicorpus</i> (lifts a body a
few inches off the ground and levitates to where the wand is pointed)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">50. Morsmordre</i> (conjures
Voldemort’s Dark Mark, often used to cause terror or mark death)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">51. Muffliato</i> (keep nearby people
from hearing nearby conversations)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">52. Nox</i> (counter charm to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lumos</i> spell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">53. Obliviate</i> (used to hide a
memory of a particular event)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">54. Obscuro</i> (causes a blindfold to
obstruct a victim’s eyes)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">55. Oppugno</i> (causes conjured
objects to attack)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">56. Orchideous</i> (makes a bouquet of
flowers appears out of the caster’s wand)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">57. Pack</i> (Packs a trunk, or likely
any luggage)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">58. Petrificus Totalus</i> (temporarily
binds a victim’s body as if it is a solder standing at attention)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">59. Piertotum Locomotor</i> (animates
statues and suits of armor to do the caster’s bidding)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">60. Point Me</i> (cause the caster’s
wand tip to point north like a compass)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">61. Portus</i> (turns an object into a
portkey)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">62. Prior Incantato</i> (reveals the
echo or shadow of an image of the last spell cast by a wand)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">63. Protego</i> (causes jinxes, curses,
and hexes to rebound upon the attacker, or at least reduces their full effect,
also can create a shield emanating form the caster’s wand)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">64. Protego Horribilis</i> (provides
some form of protection against Dark Magic)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">65. Protego Totalulm</i> (provides
protection of some form for an area or dwelling)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">66. Quietus</i> (makes a magically
magnified voice return to normal, counter spell to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sonorus</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">67. Reducio</i> (makes an enlarged
object smaller, counter spell to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Engorgio</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">68. Reducto</i> (enables the caster to
explode solid objects)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">69. Relashio</i> (forces someone or
something to release an object)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">70. Rennervate</i> (brings someone out
of unconsciousness, counter spell to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stupefy</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">71. Reparo</i> (repairs broken or
damaged objects)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">72. Repello Muggletum</i> (keeps
Muggles away from wizarding places by distracting them or making them
forgetful)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">73. Rictusempra</i> (causes the subject
to feel the sensation of being tickled)<o:p></o:p></div>
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the target, as if slashed by a sword)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">78. Serpensortia</i> (conjures a
serpent from the caster’s wand)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">79. Silencio</i> (silences something
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victim’s legs dance uncontrollably)<o:p></o:p></div>
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small objects through the air)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-67142327494431787442015-07-23T04:00:00.000-07:002018-02-16T22:39:30.423-08:0023 BEST BOOKS ABOUT 23 SPORTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I often give a <a href="http://www.bradherzog.com/speaking.html" target="_blank">talk to educators</a> that
I call “Hemingway was a Sportswriter.” It’s mostly about how teachers can utilize
sports as a means of generating enthusiasm for reading and writing among
reluctant readers and writers. But the talk also might have been titled “In
Defense of Sports as Literature.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I talk about how Ernest Hemingway patterned
himself after famous early 20<sup>th</sup>-century sportswriter Ring Lardner.
And Hemingway wrote about sports—skiing, jai-alai, big game hunting—for the rest
of his life. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death in the Afternoon</i>
was about bullfighting. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Old Man and
the Sea</i>, which won him a Pulitzer Prize, was a simple story about a
fisherman battling a fish. Hemingway tended to use sports as a metaphor, and he
found profundity in the action, the detail, the things other writers might have
missed. He found beauty in the precision of the hunt, grace in the movement of
the matador, a sort of ballet in the struggle between a fisherman and a marlin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Books about sports can serve as
enlightenment disguised as entertainment. Sometimes it’s because a game or a
season or a sports can serve as the perfect structure for a riveting narrative.
And sometimes it’s because athletes or events can represent agents of change.
When you read a biography of Jackie Robinson or Joe Louis or Bill Russell,
you’re really reading a racial history of America. Arthur Ashe’s brilliant and
beautiful autobiography, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Days of Grace</i>,
is about a tennis player, sure. But it’s really about race and AIDS and privacy
and death and love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is no wonder that sports tends to
draw literary luminaries. Damon Runyan and James Michener started their careers
as sportswriters. John Grisham and Stephen King have each written a few books
about sports—long after reaching the point where they could write about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything</i> they want. William Faulkner
wrote for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i>. So did
Robert Frost and John Steinbeck. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So sports—which was so long derided as
the Toy Department of newspapers—has been the setting for many a literary
masterpiece. Sometimes really serious stuff. And sometimes not. Some fiction.
Some nonfiction. All brilliant. But I’m here to rank the best of the best—with
only one rule: One book per sport. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That rule leaves off some impressive
titles. Although it was a tough call, none of these football classics made the
cut: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paper Lion</i> (George Plimpton), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Everybody’s All-American</i> (Frank Deford),
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Semi-Tough</i> (Dan Jenkins), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">North Dallas Forty</i> (Peter Gent).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither did these two books about pro
basketball: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Loose Balls </i>(Terry Pluto)
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jordan Rules</i> (Sam Smith). Nor
did these two golf tomes: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Golf in the
Kingdom</i> (Michael Murphy) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ben
Hogan’s Five Lessons</i> (Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind). Even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Days of Grace</i> was edged out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And baseball? That’s a genre unto
itself. Among the runners-up were<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The
Natural </i>(Bernard Malamud), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shoeless
Joe</i> (W.P. Kinsella), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moneyball</i>
(Michael Lewis), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You Know Me Al</i> (Ring
Lardner), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Long Season </i>(Jim
Brosnan), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bang the Drum Slowly</i> (Mark
Harris), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ball Four</i>—although Jim
Bouton’s line in the latter may be my favorite of all: “You spend a good piece
of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the
other way around all the time.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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What you will find here, though, are
books by folks like David Halberstam and John McPhee and Don DeLillo and Jon
Krakauer. And, although <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Old Man and
the Sea</i> took second place, I did include one from Hemingway. And yes, here
I’m categorizing fishing and mountain climbing and even bullfighting as sports.
There’s an argument to be made against that, of course—but not against the
books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And by the way, the meaning of a book
can change with time—sometimes it changes with insight. Witness the final book
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1. FISHING: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A River Runs Through It</i> (Norman Maclean,
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From the Village Voice: “A <span style="background: white;">masterpiece. . . . This is more than stunning fiction:
It is a lyric record of a time and a life, shining with Maclean's special gift
for calling the reader's attention to arts of all kinds—the arts that work in
nature, in personality, in social intercourse, in fly-fishing."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2. MOUNTAIN
CLIMBING: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Into Thin Air</i> (Jon
Krakauer, 1997)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From Amazon.com: “<i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Into Thin Air</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount
Everest. In March 1996,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Outside</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>magazine sent veteran journalist and
seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide
Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of
summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the
ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end…
As the journey up the mountain progresses, Krakauer puts it in context by
recalling the triumphs and perils of other Everest trips throughout history.
The author's own anguish over what happened on the mountain is palpable as he
leads readers to ponder timeless questions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3. BASEBALL: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Boys of Summer</i> (Roger Kahn, 1971)<o:p></o:p></div>
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early-'50s Brooklyn Dodgers is, by turns, a novelistic tale of conflict and
change, a tribute, a civic history, a piece of nostalgia and, finally, a
tragedy, as the franchise's 1958 move to Los Angeles takes the soul of
Brooklyn with it. Kahn writes eloquently about the memorable games and the Dodgers'
penchant for choking -- "Wait Till Next Year" is their motto -- but
the most poignant passages revisit the Boys in autumn. An auto accident has
rendered catcher Roy Campanella a quadriplegic. Dignified trailblazer Jackie
Robinson is mourning the death of his son. Sure-handed third baseman Billy Cox
is tending bar. No book is better at showing how sports is not just games.<span class="apple-converted-space"> “<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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4. HIGH
SCHOOL FOOTBALL: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Friday Night Lights</i>
(H.G. Bissinger, 1990)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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From Amazon.com: “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Secular religions are
fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high
school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most
fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where
the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record
in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the
team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and
for worse,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the town; the communal health and
self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the
former… Written with great style and passion,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Friday
Night Lights</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>offers an
American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the
image is hard to forget.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dryden’s memoir and extended meditation on goaltending, hockey, family and life
with the dynastic Montreal Canadiens, has justly earned a reputation as the
best book written about the sport, and perhaps any sport, in the English language…
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wrote “The Game” in his last season as a player before retiring at the tender
age of 31; it is remarkable that a writer that young could be so eloquent on
his first try as an author, given that he was usually otherwise engaged,
stopping pucks. But he was known as a thoughtful guy—he had taken a year off
from the Canadiens to complete his law degree at McGill University. And, sure
enough, after retirement he embarked on a peripatetic career as a thinker and
doer.”</div>
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6. HORSERACING: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seabiscuit: An American Legend</i> (Laura
Hillenbrand, 2001)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i>: “It’s a terrific story, but it’s more than just
a horse’s tale, because the humans who owned, trained and rode Seabiscuit are
equally fascinating… Hillenbrand not only ties… divergent personalities into a
fast-moving narrative but also shows an extraordinary talent for describing a
horse race so vividly that the reader feels like the rider. She writes about
the confusion, turbulence and artistry of a race with the same grasp of sound
and movement that Whitney Blliett brings to jazz in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Yorker</i> profiles. That is no mean accomplishment… Even if your
interest in horses goes no further than hansom cabs, you’ll find this book
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7. TENNIS: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Levels of the Game</i> (John McPhee, 1969)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life</i> magazine: <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"McPhee has produced what is probably the best tennis book ever
written. On the surface it is a joint profile of… Arthur Ashe and Clark
Graebner (using a 1968 U.S. Open semifinal match as the narrative structure),
but underneath it is considerably more—namely, a highly original way of looking
at human behavior… He proves his point with consummate skill and journalistic artistry.
You are the way you play, he is saying. The court is life.”</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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8. BOXING: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sweet Science</i> (A.J. Liebling, 1956)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i>: “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pound-for-pound the top boxing writer of all time, Liebling
is at his bare-knuckled best here, bobbing and weaving between superb reporting
and evocative prose. The fistic figures depicted in this timeless collection of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>New Yorker</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>essays range from champs such as Rocky
Marciano and Sugar Ray Robinson to endearing palookas and eccentric cornermen
on the fringes of the squared circle. Liebling's writing is efficient yet
stylish, acerbic yet soft and sympathetic. ("The sweet science, like an
old rap or the memory of love, follows its victims everywhere.") He
leavens these flourishes with an eye for detail worthy of Henry James. The
one-two combination allows him to convey how boxing can at once be so repugnant
and so alluring.<span class="apple-converted-space">”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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9. STREET
BASKETBALL: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heaven is a Playground</i>
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concerned solely with the game, Telander’s description of a 1970s summer in New
York City is the perfect mate. Whereas other great hoop books get their
excitement from reading about icons or memorable teams, this book focuses on
the childlike innocence of the game itself. Telander captures the essence of
the street because much of the conversation in the book is embedded in slang
and playground talk. Whereas many books are clouded with too much research that
sometimes breaks up the presence of setting, Heaven never widens the scope.”</span></div>
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10. GOLF: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Golf Omnibus</i> (P.G. Wodehouse, 1973)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">From Amazon.com: “</span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If on the links you would deride
a driving nor'easter as ‘Scots mist,’ if you admire beaus who embrace their
girls with the interlocking grip, if you would chip into a rowboat and row
across the bay to save a few strokes on ‘The Longest Hole,’ if you think ‘Those
in Peril on the Tee’ is a wonderful story title, if you love stalwart heroes
wielding mashie niblicks and cleeks and who can't abide tennis players, if you
want to know the origin of many golf expressions, including ‘The Pro’ or want
to know how best to rhyme ‘putter’ in a paean to the king (see ‘The Coming of
Gowf’), if you think a best ball match would be an efficient way to sort out
star-crossed lovers, get this book!”<span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">11. PRO FOOTBALL: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Instant Replay</i> (Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap, 1968) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sports Rapport: “</span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Instant Replay,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span>the diary of the
1967 Packers season by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap, is a testament to what can
happen when outstanding candor and beautiful writing converge with outrageously
fortuitous luck. What begins as an arduous challenge for Kramer to persevere
through yet another torturous Vince Lombardi training camp culminates in the
Packers’ triumph in the Ice Bowl–on a final-minute Bart Starr quarterback sneak
for a touchdown where Kramer threw the key block–and, somewhat
anti-climatically, the Packers’ Super Bowl II victory over the Raiders. For
insight into the daily preparation and psyche of a football player, football
coach, and football team alone,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "calibri"; padding: 0in;">Instant Replay</span></em> would be an exceptional read. That
it captures one of the most heralded plays in NFL history, however, leads its
relevance to endure more than 40 years later.”</div>
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12. COLLEGE
FOOTBALL: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">End Zone</i> (Don DeLillo,
1972)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From Amazon.com: “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The story of an
angst-ridden, war-obsessed running back for Logos College in West Texas,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>End Zone</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a heady and hilarious conflation of
Cold War existentialism and the parodied parallelism of battlefield/sports
rhetoric. When not arguing nuclear endgame strategy with his professor, Major
Staley, narrator Gary Harkness joins a brilliant and unlikely bunch of
overmuscled gladiators on the field and in the dormitory. In characteristic
fashion, DeLillo deliberately undermines the football-is-combat cliché by
having one of his characters explain: "I reject the notion of football as
warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the
real thing." What remains is an insightful examination of language in an
alien, postmodern world, where a football player's ultimate triumph is his need
to play the game.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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13. PRO BASKETBALL:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Breaks of the Game</i> (David
Halberstam, 1981)<o:p></o:p></div>
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squads that directly followed the team that won a title behind<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">Bill Walton</span></strong>,
Halberstam attacks the intimate details with a ferocious appetite… Walton is
probably the most accomplished player who’s heavily involved. But it doesn’t
matter. No single player occupies too much of the reader’s time and all of the
characters, no matter how small, are given chances to tell their stories. By
its conclusion, this book crafted dozens of full, three-dimensional people.”</div>
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14. COLLEGE
BASKETBALL: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Season on the Brink</i>
(John Feinstein, 1986)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Booklist</i>: <span style="background: white; color: black;">“Despite his
feelings toward the press generally, (Indiana University coach Bob) Knight
granted<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Washington Post</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>reporter Feinstein total access to his
team, his staff, and himself during the 1985–86 season. It was a year in which
Knight felt his coaching methods were at stake as much as his winning
percentage. Feinstein capitalized wonderfully on the opportunity. This is the
best sports book of the year, maybe of many years. It captures the dynamics of
Knight’s interaction with his players so vividly that the reader feels like
part of the team. Feinstein effectively cuts through Knight’s public personas—the
revered god and the despised devil—to reveal a complex man who is occasionally
hateful and sometimes lovable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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15. BULLFIGHTING: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death in the Afternoon</i> (Ernest
Hemingway, 1932)<o:p></o:p><br />
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i>: “<span style="color: black;">Bull-fighting is… presented as an art heightened by the
presence of death and, if the spectator can project himself into the matador's
place, in the terror of death. For even the best matadors have their moments of
fear—even their days and seasons of fear. The book is thus not only a careful,
even a meticulous explanation of the way bull-fighting is done, but is also a
picturing of the spirit in which it is done and seen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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16. FIGURE SKATING:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inside Edge</i> (Christine Brennan, 1996)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Publishers Weekly</i>: “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Here (Brennan) follows the season from October 1994 to the
Nationals held the following February, concentrating largely on the likely
stars of tomorrow. Of course she touches on the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan
imbroglio and the arrest of U.S. champ Nicole Bobek on a burglary charge (later
dismissed), but she is less interested in scandal than in showing how a year's
work and tens of thousands in parental dollars can be lost by a couple of
missteps in a single four-minute program. She demonstrates how the homosexuality
of many—perhaps most—of the men in the sport is covered up, how quixotic the
judging is and how the sport is becoming more like tennis as it attracts
younger participants and more high-powered agents.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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17. SOCCER: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fever Pitch</i> (Nick Hornby, 1991)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i>: “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How can the rest of the world summon such passion for soccer?
You'll understand after reading Hornby's deeply personal and wonderfully witty
account of an otherwise normal bloke who develops a full-blown obsession with
Arsenal, the English Premier League team.<span class="apple-converted-space">”</span></span></div>
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RACING: American Zoom (Peter Golenbock, 1993)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Library Journal</i>: <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(Golenbock) offers this oral history of stock car racing from
its crude beginnings as a contest among Southern bootleggers to its present
status as a billion-dollar industry. The author wisely employs an oral history
format to relate the background of this sport, and the technique best suits the
subjects: jovial men with colorful personalities and nicknames, fondly
remembering the "good old days." All the great names of stock car
racing are here, from Richard Petty to Smokey Unick, from Bill France to Junior
Johnson, from Bill Elliott to Dale Earnhardt.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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19. HIGH SCHOOL
BASKETBALL: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In These Girls, Hope is a
Muscle</i> (Madeleine Blais, 1995)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Blais pokes gentle fun at Amherst, Mass., where an
infuriated teen-aged athlete in the heat of the fray may yell, ‘You ignore your
inner child!’ you suspect this will be a special book. And it is, as the reader
follows the Amherst High girls basketball team-the Lady Hurricanes-in the
1992-93 season, from game one on December 15 to the final game on March 16,
when they all but obliterated Haverhill, 74-36, to win the state championship.
While this is the story of well-bred, upper-middle class, genteel girls who
learned to be tough, it is also a picture of a changing period in American
sports history, when a town rallied around its female athletes in a way that
had previously been reserved for males.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">”</span></span></div>
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20. GYMNASTICS: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little Girls in Pretty Boxes</i> (Joan Ryan,
1995)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">School Library Journal</i>: “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In an attempt to focus attention on the high price paid
through pain, pressure, and humiliation to become an Olympic champion, Ryan has
researched the stories behind some of the young female superstar gymnasts and
figure skaters. The extraordinary cost to these young women in body, mind, and
spirit is dramatized through the intense subculture dominated by gyms,
trainers, parents, and sports officials who press for excellence and success
without regard to the health and well-being of those involved. This anecdotal
account serves as a warning to all those engaged in competitive sports that
children should not be sacrificed to adult egos and the thrills of victory.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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21. CRICKET: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beyond the Boundary</i> (C.L.R. James, 1963)<o:p></o:p></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i>: “<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Trinidadian Marxist's cricket-drenched memoir is equal
parts sports, history and philosophy. American readers will need to bone up on
the game (the 1983 U.S. edition has a four-page primer), but James' musings on
culture and colonialism are worth the effort.<span class="apple-converted-space">”</span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">22. WRESTLING: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whatever Happened to
Gorgeous George</i> (Joe Jares, 1974)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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1940s, '50s and '60s, when the sport had a more benign, vaudevillian flavor.
Jares does a terrific riff on the masked men, ersatz Indian chiefs, ‘leaping
lords’ and other baddies who routinely smuggled ‘foreign objects’ in their
trunks.<span class="apple-converted-space">”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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23. CYCLING: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s Not About the Bike</i>
(Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, 2001)<o:p></o:p><br />
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They say everything in literature
is derivative, each creation influenced by a previous one. Perhaps, but there’s
plenty of imagination still to be tapped. Most of the good stuff happens late
at night, when everyone’s asleep and all the ideas are out there for the
taking. That’s why we at <a href="http://www.whynoybooks.com/" target="_blank">Why Not Books</a> aim to create nonfiction that tells
untold stories from unique angles, along with clever fiction that doesn’t
necessarily adhere to the trend or style of the moment. We pair stories with
charities, publicizing the non-profits and donating a portion of the proceeds. We
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Still… maybe everything really is
derivative in one way or another. Consider the following, which shows that you easily
can travel from Homer to Harry Potter in 16 steps:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Circa
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2. In a 14<sup>th</sup>-century poem set against a backdrop of that very
siege of Troy, Geoffrey Chaucer retold in Middle English the tragic story of
lovers “Troilus and Criseyde.” Achilles and Hector made appearances, too.</div>
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3. About 225 years later, based in part on Chaucer’s work, William
Shakespeare penned <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Troilus and Cressida</i>,
a blacker version of the original. During the writing, the Bard’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelfth Night</i> was first performed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. More than three centuries after Shakespeare’s day, Agatha Christie
published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sad Cypress</i>, the first
Hercule Poirot courtroom drama, which takes its title from a song from Act II, Scene
IV of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelfth Night</i>: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Come away, come away, death,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And in a sad cypress let me be
laid; <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fly away, fly away breath;<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am slain by a fair cruel maid. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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5. According to Christie in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big
Four,</i> the fictional Poirot was born in the very real town of Spa, Belgium.</div>
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6. A violinist, Georges Krins, was also born in Spa, in 1889. Twenty-three
years later, he boarded the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RMS Titanic</i>
for its maiden voyage and gained immortality as one of the musicians who played
while passengers boarded life rafts. Krins didn’t survive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Novelist Theodore Dreiser, then 40, planned to return from a European
vacation aboard <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Titanic</i>, but his
publisher persuaded him to opt for a less expensive ship. A year later, in his
memoir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Traveler at Forty</i>, he wrote,
“<span style="background: white; color: black;">To think of a ship as immense as
the Titanic, new and bright, sinking in endless fathoms of water. And the two
thousand passengers routed like rats from their berths only to float helplessly
in miles of water, praying and crying!”</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">8. Earlier in his career, as a
young newspaper reporter, Dreiser wrote an article about Nathaniel Hawthorne,
who published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The House of the Seven
Gables</i> in 1851. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">9. <i>The House of the Seven Gables</i></span><span style="background: white; color: black;"> was adapted for film 89 years after its
publication. One of the stars of the movie: Vincent Price. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">10. A quarter century later, Price
made a guest appearance on a television show—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Get Smart, </i>created by Mel Brooks<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.
</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">11. Mel’s son, Max Brooks, became
an author and screenwriter, his most successful book being the epic tale of a
zombie apocalypse:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> World War Z. </i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">12. Brad Pitt’s production
company, Plan B Entertainment, produced the film version of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">World War Z</i>, as well as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>,
starring Johnny Depp. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">13. Depp played Hunter S. Thompson
in the movie version of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas</i>. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">14. Thompson was a Beat Generation
pal of poet Allen Ginsberg.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">15. Ginsberg was the focus of a
2013 biopic called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Killing Your Darlings</i>,
starring Daniel Radcliffe as Ginsberg. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">16. A dozen years earlier, Radcliffe
skyrocketed to fame by playing a certain wizard by the name of… Harry Potter. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Back in 2008, on their website
“The Art of Manliness,” Brett and Kate McCay wrote beautifully about oratory: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oratory has been called the
highest art for it encompasses all other disciplines. It requires a knowledge
of literature, the ability to construct prose, and an ear for rhythm, harmony
and musicality. Oratory is not mere speaking, but speech that appeals to our
noblest sentiments, animates our souls, stirs passions and emotions, and
inspires virtuous action. It is often at its finest when fostered during times
of tragedy, pain, crisis, fear, and turmoil. In these situations it serves as a
light, a guide to those who cannot themselves make sense of the chaos and look
to a leader to point the way.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The McCays then took it upon
themselves to select the 35 greatest examples of oratory in history—based on
style, substance, and impact. So of all the addresses and lectures and sermons,
of all the orations and exhortations and proclamations, of all the statements
of possibility and perseverance, among a cast of historical icons that might
include Patton and Napoleon and Vince Lombardi and Billy Graham and William
Jennings Bryan and Malcolm X, these were deemed the 35 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>finest speeches. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s a fine list—maybe a little heavy
on Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt, and the inclusion of Jesus Christ had
some folks scratching their heads. And since it was posted on “The Art of
Manliness,” it is a male-only collection. Still, it is an impressive array of
oratory. Given the time, we should all read each one of them in full. But in
this installment of the <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/blog-the-why-not-100.html" target="_blank">Why Not 100</a>, we offer excerpts—we rank the 35 best
parts of the best speeches in human history:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Martin Luther, King, Jr. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I Have a Dream”<o:p></o:p></div>
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August 28, 1963—Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I have a dream that one day every
valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the
rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it
together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone
of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of
our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be
able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail
together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one
day. This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God’s children will
be able to sing with new meaning, ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of
liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s
pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Winston
Churchill<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We Shall Fight on the Beaches”<o:p></o:p></div>
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June 4, 1940—House of Commons, London<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We
shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas
and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the
air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on
the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the
fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never
surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a
large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas,
armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in
God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to
the rescue and the liberation of the old.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. Frederick Douglass<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What to the Slave is the Fourth
of July?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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July 5, 1852—Rochester, New York<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I am not included within the
pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the
immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you this day rejoice
are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty,
prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not
me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and
death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must
mourn.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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4. Abraham Lincoln<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Gettysburg Address”<o:p></o:p></div>
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November 19, 1863—Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The world will little note, nor
long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It
is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather of us to be
here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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5. Patrick
Henry <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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March 23, 1775—Richmond, Virginia<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the
clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we
here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so
dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know now what course others may take; but as for me,
give me library, or give me death!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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6. John F. Kennedy<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Inauguration Address”<o:p></o:p></div>
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January
20, 1961—Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“In the long history of the
world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom
in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome
it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people
or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to
this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from
that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what
your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow
citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together
we can do for the freedom of man.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Theodore Roosevelt<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Citizenship in a Republic”<o:p></o:p></div>
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April 23, 1910—Paris, France<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It is not the critic who counts,
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of
deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually
in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is not
effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the
deeds; who knows great enthusiasm, the great devotions; who spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that
his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know
victory nor defeat.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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8. William Faulkner<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”<o:p></o:p></div>
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December 10, 1950—Stockholm,
Sweden<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I believe that man will not
merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among
creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit
capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s,
duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by
lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride
and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.
The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the
props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. Winston
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“Their Finest Hour”<o:p></o:p></div>
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June 18, 1940—House of Commons, London<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the
war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the
world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the
whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and
cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and
perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore
brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire
and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, ‘This was their
finest hour.’”<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. Abraham Lincoln<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Second Inaugural Address”<o:p></o:p></div>
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March 4, 1865—Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we
are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne
the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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11. Charles de Gaulle<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Appeal of 18 June”<o:p></o:p></div>
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June
18, 1940, London<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The war is not limited to the
unfortunate territory of our country. This war is not over as a result of the
Battle of France. All the mistakes, all the delays, all the suffering, do not
alter the fact that there are, in the world, all the means necessary to crush
our enemies one day. Vanquished today by mechanical force, in the future we
will be able to overcome by a superior mechanical force. The fate of the world
depends on it.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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12. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt<o:p></o:p></div>
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“First Inaugural Address”<o:p></o:p></div>
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March
4, 1933—Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“This great nation will endure as
it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert
my firm believe that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless,
unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert
retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of
frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people
themselves, which is essential to victory.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Blood, Sweat, and Tears”<o:p></o:p></div>
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London<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I have nothing to offer but
blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous
kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. You ask,
what is your policy? I say it is to wage war by land, se, and air. War with all
our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a
monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human
crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word.
It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however
long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Funeral Oration”<o:p></o:p></div>
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431 B.C.—Athens<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You must yourselves realize the
power of Athens, and feed your eyes upon her from day to day, till love of her
fills your hearts; and then, when all her greatness shall break upon you, you
must reflect that it was by courage, sense of duty, and a keen feeling of honor
in action that men were enabled to win all this, and that no personal failure
in an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enterprise could make them consent
to deprive their country of their valor, but they laid it at her feet as the
most glorious contribution that they could offer.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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15. Ronald
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“Address to the Nation on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Challenger</i>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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January 28, 1986—Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this
happen. It’s all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It’s all
part of taking a chance and expanding man’s horizons. The future doesn’t belong
to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling
us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Apology”<o:p></o:p></div>
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399 B.C.—Athens<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Someone will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and
then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I
have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell
you that to do as you say would be disobedience to the God, and therefore that
I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say
again that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about
which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and
that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to
believe me.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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17. John F. Kennedy<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Decision to Go to the Moon”<o:p></o:p></div>
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May 25, 1961—Houston, Texas<o:p></o:p></div>
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“There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as
yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all
mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But
why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why
climb the highest mountain?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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18. General Douglas MacArthur<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Duty, Honor, Country”<o:p></o:p></div>
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May 12, 1962—West Point, New York<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our
national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold
the nation’s destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long
Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive
drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses
thundering those magic words: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duty,
Honor, Country</i>.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Man with the Muck-Rake”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“To assail the great and admitted
evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping
generalizations as to include decent men in the general condemnation means the
searing of the public conscience. There results a general attitude either of
cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a
distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad. Either
attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. Ronald
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“40<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of D-Day”<o:p></o:p></div>
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June 6, 1984—Pointe du Hoc, France<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith
that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy
on the beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge—and pray God we have
not lost it—that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force
for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate,
not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you
were right not to doubt.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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21. Mahatma Gandhi<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Quit India”<o:p></o:p></div>
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August 8, 1942—India<o:p></o:p></div>
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“In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by
non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own
master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today.
Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and
Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common
struggle for independence.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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22. Theodore Roosevelt<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Duties of American Citizenship”<o:p></o:p></div>
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January 26, 1883—Buffalo, New York<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No man has a right to shirk his political duties under whatever plea of
pleasure or business; and while such shirking may be pardoned in those of small
means it is entirely unpardonable in those among whom it is most common—in the
people whose circumstances give them freedom in the struggle for life. In so
far as the community grows to think it rightly, it will likewise grow to regard
the young man of means who shirks his duty to the State in time of peace as
being only one degree worse than the man who thus shirks it in time of war.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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23. Dwight Eisenhower<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Farewell Address”<o:p></o:p></div>
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January 17, 1961—Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and
will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our
liberties or democratic process. We should take nothing for granted. Only an
alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge
industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and
goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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May 12, 1789—House of Commons, London<o:p></o:p></div>
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“However averse any gentleman may now be, yet we shall all be of one
opinion in the end. When I turn myself to these thoughts, I take courage—I
determine to forget all my other fears, and I march forward with a firmer step
in the full assurance that my cause will bear me out, and that I shall be able
to justify upon the clearest principles, every resolution in my hand, the
avowed end of which is the total abolition of the slave trade.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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25. Marcus Tullius Cicero<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The First Oration Against Catiline”<o:p></o:p></div>
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63 B.C.—Rome<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I will put you to death, then, when there shall be not one person
possible to be found so wicked, so abandoned, so like yourself, as not to allow
that it has been rightly done. As long as one person exists who can dare to
defend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my
many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger
against the republic; many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as
they have hitherto done, tho you shall not perceive them.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation”<o:p></o:p></div>
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December 8, 1941—Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated
invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to
absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of
the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the
uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall
never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact
that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With
confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our
people, we will gain the inevitable triumph.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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27. General Douglas MacArthur<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Farwell Address to Congress”<o:p></o:p></div>
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April 19, 1951—Washington, D.C. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army,
even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish
hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on
the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but
I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that
day which proclaimed most proudly that ‘old soldiers never die; they just fade
away.’” <o:p></o:p></div>
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28. Jesus Christ<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Sermon on the Mount”<o:p></o:p></div>
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33 A.D.—Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek:
for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for
they shall obtain mercy.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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29. Chief Joseph<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Surrender Speech”<o:p></o:p></div>
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October 5, 1877—Montana Territory<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to
death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no
blankets, no food. No one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I
want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find.
Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my
heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more
forever. “<o:p></o:p></div>
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342 B.C.—Athens<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It is folly, and it is cowardice, to cherish hopes like these, to give
way to evil counsels, to refuse to do anything that you should do, to listen to
the advocates of the enemy’s cause, and to fancy that you dwell in so great a
city that, whatever happens, you will not suffer any harm.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. George Washington<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Resignation Speech”<o:p></o:p></div>
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December 23, 1784—Annapolis, Maryland\<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great
theater of action; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body
under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take
my leave of all the employments of public life.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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32. Theodore Roosevelt<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Strength and Decency”<o:p></o:p></div>
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August 16, 1903—Oyster Bay, New York<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I desire to see in this country the decent men strong and the strong men
decent, and until we get that combination in pretty good shape we are not going
to be by any means as successful as we should be. There is always a tendency
among very young men and among boys who are not quite young men as yet to think
that to be wicked is rather smart; to think it shows that they are men. Oh, how
often you see some young fellow who boasts that he is going to ‘see life,”
meaning by that that he is going to see that part of life which it is a
thousandfold better should remain unseen!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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33. Ronald Reagan<o:p></o:p></div>
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June 12, 1987—Berlin<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security
go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of
world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable,
that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General
Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet
Union and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate,
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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326 B.C.—Hydaspes River, India<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You and I, gentlemen, have shared the labor and shared the danger, and
the rewards are for us all. The conquered territory belongs to you; from your
ranks the governors of it are chosen; already the greater part of its treasure
passes into your hands, and when all Asia is overrun, then indeed I will go
further than the mere satisfaction of our ambitions: the utmost hopes of riches
or power which each one of you cherishes will be far surpassed, and whoever
wishes to return home will be allowed to go, either with me or without me. I
will make those who stay the envy of those who return.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I
got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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A friend and I have a little game
of intellectual tennis that we play, usually when we’re killing time. It’s
called “The Mount Rushmore Game,” and basically it just requires us to come up
with the four greatest entries in any particular category. For instance (and these
are only my opinions, but I’m pretty sure they’re correct), the Mount Rushmore
of… <o:p></o:p></div>
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American athletes: Babe Ruth,
Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rock bands: Beatles, Rolling
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Sitcom characters: Archie Bunker,
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See, it’s easy, if never a source
of agreement. So I’ve taken it to a literary level. Best songs about writing?
Best literary doctors? Best character names? Best autobiography titles? It’s
all here—and most of the lists of four have been expanded elsewhere in the <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/blog-the-why-not-100.html" target="_blank">WhyNot 100</a> (Four songs about writing? <u><a href="http://thewhynot100.blogspot.com/2015/06/95-songs-about-writing.html" target="_blank">How about 95</a></u>). <o:p></o:p></div>
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So here are 44 fun foursomes, all
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1. SONGS ABOUT
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Paperback Writer (The Beatles)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Every Day I Write the Book (Elvis
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Unwritten (Natasha Beddingfield)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Almost Famous (2000)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. DR. SEUSS
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“You see things as they are and ask,
‘Why.’ I dream things as they never were and
ask, ‘Why not?’” <span style="background-color: white;">― </span>George Bernard Shaw</div>
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<span style="background: white;">“Knowledge
is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white;">― </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9810.Albert_Einstein"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Albert Einstein</span></a></div>
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6. MID 20<sup>TH</sup>
CENTURY WRITERS NAMED JOHN:<o:p></o:p></div>
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CENTURY WRITERS NAMED JOHN:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx):<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Hills Have Guys<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle):<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eat Until You Feel Pretty<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D.
Salinger):<o:p></o:p></div>
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. LITERARY
CANDIES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wonka
Bar (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter </i>series)<span style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Brain Feed (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Candy Shop War</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10. INDIE BOOKSTORE
NAMES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Crazy Wisdom (Ann Arbor, MI)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tome on the Range (Las Vegas, NM)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Iconoclast Books (Ketchum, ID)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Women and Children First (Chicago,
IL)<o:p></o:p></div>
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11. PHRASES COINED
BY SHAKESPEARE:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The world’s my oyster (The Merry
Wives of Windor)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was Greek to me (Julius Caesar)<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s the rub (Hamlet)<o:p></o:p></div>
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12. FIRST LINES OF
NOVELS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It was a bright cold day in April,
and the clocks<o:p></o:p></div>
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were striking thirteen.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1984</i> by George Orwell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Happy families are all alike; every
unhappy family is<o:p></o:p></div>
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unhappy in its own way.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anna Karenina</i> by Leo Tolstoy)<o:p></o:p></div>
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“If you really want to hear about it,
the first thing you’ll<o:p></o:p></div>
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probably want to know is where I was
born, and what my<o:p></o:p></div>
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lousy childhood was like, and how my
parents were occupied<o:p></o:p></div>
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and all before they had me, and all
that David Copperfield kind <o:p></o:p></div>
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of crap, but I don’t feel like going
into it, if you want to know the truth.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Catcher in the Rye</i> by J.D. Salinger)<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Ships at a distance have every man’s
wish on board.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Their
Eyes Were Watching God</i> by Zora Neale Hurston)<o:p></o:p></div>
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13. LAST LINES OF
NOVELS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"He loved
Big Brother." (<i>1984 </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">by </span>George
Orwell)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">"I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the
rest, because Aunt Sally </span>she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand
it. I been there before." (<em><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn </span></em><em><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;">by </span></em>Mark Twain)</div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">“I am haunted by waters.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
River Runs Through It</i> by Norman Maclean)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">“From here on in I rag
nobody.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bang the Drum Slowly</i> by
Mark Harris)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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14. VERY
BAD BOOK TITLES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What’s Your Poo Telling You?</i>
(Anish Sheth)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assaulted Pretzel: An Amish Mystery</i>
(Laura Bradford)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Avoid Huge Ships</i>
(Captain John W. Trimmer)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Best Dad is a Good Lover</i>
(Charlie W. Shedd)<o:p></o:p></div>
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15. BOOKS
WITH NUMBERED TITLES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1984
</i>(George Orwell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Catch-22</i>
(Joseph Heller)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Tale of Two Cities</i> (Charles Dickens)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</i> (Jules Verne)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">16. LITERARY DETECTIVES:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">Sherlock Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">Hercule Poirot<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">Philip Marlowe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">Nancy Drew</span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> 17. </o:p></span></span>SEUSSIAN INSIGHTS:</div>
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“Don’t give up! I believe in you all.
A person’s a person,<o:p></o:p></div>
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no matter how small!” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Horton Hears a Who</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You have brains in your head. You
have feet in your shoes. You<o:p></o:p></div>
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can steer yourself any direction you
choose.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh, The Places You’ll Go!)<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“In the places I go there are things
that I see that I never could spell<o:p></o:p></div>
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if I stopped with a Z. I’m telling
you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your
alphabet ends.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On Beyond Zebra</i>)</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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“UNLESS someone like you cares a
whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” (The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lorax</i>)</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">18. STEVEN WRIGHT ONE-LINERS:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">“I intend to live forever—so far, so good.”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any
time.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">So I ordered</span> <span style="background: white;">French
Toast during the Renaissance.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">“How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">“I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">19. BOOKS WRITTEN BY KIDS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The Diary of a Young Girl</span></i><span style="color: black;"> (Anne Frank)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The Outsiders</span></i><span style="color: black;"> (S.E. Hinton)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Eragon</span></i><span style="color: black;"> (</span>Christopher
Paolini)<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
the Forests of the Night</i> (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. DISTURBING GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALE TITLES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Godfather Death<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Poor Boy in the Grave<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Devil’s Sooty Brother<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gambling Hansel<o:p></o:p></div>
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21. LITERARY
PAIRINGS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Romeo
and Juliet</i> (William Shakespeare)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">War
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crime
and Punishment</i> (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pride
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Man Accused of Killing Lawyer
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Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks<o:p></o:p></div>
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Top Secret Mission to Launch Tuesday<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chick Accuses Some of Her Male
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23. HEADLINES FROM ‘THE
ONION’:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Children, Creepy Middle-Aged Weirdos
Swept Up in Harry Potter Craze<o:p></o:p></div>
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Winner Didn’t Even Know It Was
Pie-Eating Contest<o:p></o:p></div>
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CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black
Highlighters All These Years<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences
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24. TOWN SLOGANS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Newton Falls, Ohio: The town with zip<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gettysburg, South Dakota: Where the
battle wasn’t<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hooker, Oklahoma: It’s a location,
not a vocation<o:p></o:p></div>
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Boswell, Indiana: Hub of the universe<o:p></o:p></div>
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25. SONGS ABOUT
ROAD TRIPS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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26. WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM:<o:p></o:p></div>
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William
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William Faulkner<o:p></o:p></div>
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William Wordsworth<o:p></o:p></div>
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William B. Yeats<o:p></o:p></div>
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27. SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hamlet<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lady Macbeth<o:p></o:p></div>
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King Lear<o:p></o:p></div>
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Prospero<o:p></o:p></div>
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28. LITERARY
DOCTORS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. John H. Watson (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Study in Scarlet</i>, Arthur Conan Doyle)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Fu-Manchu (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu</i>, Sax Rohmer)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Hannibal Lecter (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence of the Lambs</i>, Thomas Harris)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Victor Frankenstein (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frankenstein</i>, Mary Shelley)</div>
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29. BOOK TITLES
BORROWED FROM LITERATURE:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For
Whom the Bell Tolls</i> (Ernest Hemingway)<o:p></o:p></div>
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—from “Meditation XVII” (John Donne)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gone
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—from “<span style="background: white; color: black;">Non sum qualis eram bonae sub
regno Cynarae” (Ernest Dowson)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Look Homeward, Angel</span></i><span style="background: white; color: black;"> (Thomas Wolfe)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As
I Lay Dying</i> (William Faulkner)<o:p></o:p></div>
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—from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Odyssey</i> (Homer)<span style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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30. COLORFUL BOOKS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Color Purple</i> (Alice Walker)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Scarlet Letter</i> (Nathaniel Hawthorne)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Red Badge of Courage</i> (Stephen Crane)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Clockwork Orange</i> (Anthony Burgess)<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. RED BOOKS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Red Pony </i>(John Steinbeck)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where
the Red Fern Grows </i>(Wilson Rawls)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Red Tent </i>(Anita Diamant)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Red Badge of Courage</i> (Stephen Crane)<o:p></o:p></div>
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32. ICONIC WRITERS’ ACCESSORIES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s
pipe<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mark Twain’s
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James Joyce’s
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Oscar Wilde’s
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33. CHARACTER NAMES IN LITERATURE<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ebenezer Scrooge<o:p></o:p></div>
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Atticus Finch<o:p></o:p></div>
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Holly Golightly<o:p></o:p></div>
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34. BOOKS ABOUT BASEBALL:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Boys of Summer
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ball Four</i> (Jim Bouton)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moneyball </i>(Michael Lewis)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shoeless Joe</i> (W.P. Kinsella)<o:p></o:p></div>
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35. BASEBALL MURDER MYSTERY TITLES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hanging Curve</i> (Troy Soos)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dead Pull Hitter</i> (Alison Gordon)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Player to be Maimed Later</i> (John
Billheimer)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strike Three You’re Dead</i> (R.D. Rosen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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36. LITERARY
ANIMALS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Charlotte<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">37. AWESOME AUTOBIOGRAPHY
TITLES:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(Katherine Hepburn)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
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38. AWFUL
AUTOBIOGRAPHY TITLES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Don’t
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mountain,
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Are
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39. SEUSSIAN PLACES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who-ville (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Horton Hears a Who, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Jungle of Nool (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Horton Hears a Who</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Street of the Lifted Lorax (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lorax</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mulberry Street (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And To Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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40. BANDS NAMES TAKEN FROM LITERATURE<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steely Dan<o:p></o:p></div>
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Genesis<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steppenwolf<o:p></o:p></div>
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41. ISLAND
BOOKS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Island of Dr. Moreau</i> (H.G. Wells)<o:p></o:p></div>
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42. LITERARY
RABBITS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Br’er Rabbit (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncle Remus</i> by Joel Chandler Harris)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Peter Rabbit (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Tale of Peter Rabbit</i> by Beatrix Potter)<o:p></o:p></div>
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White Rabbit (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i> by Lewis Carroll)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rabbit, Run</i> by John Updike)<o:p></o:p></div>
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43. HAPPY HOBBIT
NAMES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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44. BOOKS ABOUT
MOUNT RUSHMORE FIGURES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">George
Washington: The Indispensible Man</i> (James T. Flexner)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Team
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Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-82866325915762085812015-06-24T23:29:00.000-07:002018-02-16T22:45:26.298-08:0095 SONGS ABOUT WRITING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did you know that The Doors got
their name from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Doors of Perception</i>
by Aldous Huxley? Did you know that Led Zeppelin injected J.R.R. Tolkien images
into several songs? Or that The Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote a song called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yertle the Turtle</i>? Music and literature
have had a symbiotic relationship ever since the ancient bards. So it follows, naturally,
that scores of songs in nearly every genre have been written about… writing, about
books, about famous literary characters. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We at the <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/blog-the-why-not-100.html" target="_blank">Why Not 100</a> felt it was
time to produce a definitive list—or at least as close as possible to one. So
here follows a list of 95 pen-to-paper tunes. And it doesn’t even include songs
by a death metal band from the Seattle area known as Bloodhag, a band that
wrote almost exclusively about writers—from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury to
Mary Shelley and Jules Verne. Yes, a death metal band. Which just goes to show
you: Don’t judge a book by its cover. <o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Paperback
Writer (The Beatles)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Everyday I Write the Book (Elvis Costello)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. I Write the Songs (Barry Manilow)<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. Write Your Own Songs (Willie Nelson)<o:p></o:p></div>
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6. Rewrite
(Paul Simon)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m
workin’ on my rewrite, that’s right<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gonna
change the ending<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Throw
away the title<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Toss
it in the trash<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Every
minute after midnight<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All
the time I’m spending<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is
just workin’ on my rewrite<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gonna
turn it into cash</i></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Return
to Sender (Elvis Presley)<o:p></o:p></div>
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8. Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? (Green Day)<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. The Book of Love (The Monotones)<o:p></o:p></div>
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11. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Cream)<o:p></o:p></div>
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12. Tom Sawyer (Rush)<o:p></o:p></div>
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13. 1984
(David Bowie)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">They’ll
split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And
tell that you’re eighty, but brother, you won’t care<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’ll
be shooting up on anything, tomorrow’s never there<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beware
the savage jaw<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">of
1984<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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14. Brave
New World (Iron Maiden)<o:p></o:p></div>
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15. Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)<o:p></o:p></div>
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16. Feed
my Frankenstein (Alice Cooper)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well,
I ain’t evil, I’m just good lookin’<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Start
a little fire, and baby start cookin’<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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17. White
Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)<o:p></o:p></div>
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18. Ender Will Save Us All (Dashboard Confessional)<o:p></o:p></div>
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19. Narnia (Steve Hackett)<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. Misty Mountain Hop (Led Zeppelin)<o:p></o:p></div>
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21. House at Pooh Corner (Kenny Loggins)<o:p></o:p></div>
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22. Yertle the Tertle (The Red Hot Chili Peppers)<o:p></o:p></div>
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23. Green Eggs and Ham (Moxy Fruvous)<o:p></o:p></div>
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24. The Book I’m Not Reading (Patty Larkin)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The book I’m not reading is
riveting<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The book I’m not reading keeps me
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The book I’m not reading is better
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Giving me insight<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The book I’m not reading is history<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The book I’m not reading is by some
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The book I’m not reading is mystery<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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25. The Letter (The Box Tops)<o:p></o:p></div>
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26. One of These Days (Neil Young)<o:p></o:p></div>
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28. Hey
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And the tears she cried<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">They would cry for none other<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Than her little boy lost in a little world
that hated<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Her little boy courageous<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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29. The House That Jack Kerouac Built (The Go-Betweens)<o:p></o:p></div>
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30. Neal Cassady (Washington Squares)<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. Virginia Woolf (Indigo Girls)<o:p></o:p></div>
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32. Sylvia Plath (Ryan Adams)<o:p></o:p></div>
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33. Hemingway’s Whiskey (Kenny Chesney/Guy Clark)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hemingway’s whiskey, warm and
smooth and mean<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Even when it burns, it’ll always
finish clean<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He didn’t like it watered down, he
took it straight up and neat<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If it was bad enough for him, you
know it’s bad enough for me<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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34. Songs for Myla Goldberg (The Decemberists)<o:p></o:p></div>
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35. Bukowski (Modest Mouse)<o:p></o:p></div>
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36. Walt Whitman’s Niece (Wilco)<o:p></o:p></div>
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37. Graham Greene (John Cale)<o:p></o:p></div>
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38. ee cummings (Timesbold)<o:p></o:p></div>
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39. Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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40. Love
in the Library (Jimmy Buffett)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Surrounded
by stories surreal and sublime<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
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41. The
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42. Books About UFOs (Husker Du)<o:p></o:p></div>
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43. We Call Upon the Author (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)<o:p></o:p></div>
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44. Stranger Than Fiction (Bad Religion)<o:p></o:p></div>
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45. Mr. Writer (Stereophonics)<o:p></o:p></div>
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46. Lady Writer (Dire Straits)<o:p></o:p></div>
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47. My
Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors (Moxy Fruvous)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you
should hear things that she says.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">She
says, “Hon, drop dead, I’d rather go to bed<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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48. These
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49. Keep the Customer Satisfied (Simon & Garfunkel)<o:p></o:p></div>
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50. I Write the Book (Patty Griffin)<o:p></o:p></div>
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51. Losing It (Rush)<o:p></o:p></div>
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52. Our Love (Rhett Miller)<o:p></o:p></div>
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53. The Empty Page (Sonic Youth)<o:p></o:p></div>
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54. Writer’s Block (Just Jack)<o:p></o:p></div>
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55. Writer’s Minor Holiday (Calexico)<o:p></o:p></div>
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56. Screenwriter’s Blues (Soul Coughing)<o:p></o:p></div>
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57. I Typed For Miles (Jets to Brazil)<o:p></o:p></div>
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58. Autobiography (Sloan)<o:p></o:p></div>
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59. Open Book (Cake)<o:p></o:p></div>
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60. Cemetery Gates (The Smiths)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A dreaded sunny day<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So I meet you at the cemetery gates<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Keats and Yeats are on your side<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">While Wilde is on mine<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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61. Love (Mos Def)<o:p></o:p></div>
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62. I’ll
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63. There She Goes, My Beautiful World (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)<o:p></o:p></div>
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64. When I Write the Book (Rockpile)<o:p></o:p></div>
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65. Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits)<o:p></o:p></div>
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66. Poison Pen (Hoodoo Gurus)<o:p></o:p></div>
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67. I Be Bound to Write to You (Muddy Waters)<o:p></o:p></div>
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68. Writers Retreat (Lloyd Cole)<o:p></o:p></div>
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69. The Words That I Manifest (Gang Starr)<o:p></o:p></div>
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70. My Pen and Pad (Blackalicious)<o:p></o:p></div>
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71. Party for the Fight to Write (Atmosphere)<o:p></o:p></div>
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72. Poetic Justice (Kendrick Lamar)<o:p></o:p></div>
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73. The Book I Read (Talking Heads)<o:p></o:p></div>
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74. Engine Driver (The Decemberists)<o:p></o:p></div>
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75. I’m
Reading a Book (Julian Smith)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At
home, sittin’ in my favorite nook<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My
girl’s trying to get me eat some dinner she cooked<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m
readin’ a book, girl, I’m reading a book<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Don’t
you ever interrupt me while I’m readin’ a book!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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76. Read
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77. Read a Book (Pylon)<o:p></o:p></div>
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78. Read the Book That Wrote Itself (The Liars)<o:p></o:p></div>
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79. Read it in Books (Echo and the Bunnymen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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80. I’d Write a Letter (Al Green)<o:p></o:p></div>
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81. Love Letter (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)<o:p></o:p></div>
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82. Last Love Letter (Alison Krauss)<o:p></o:p></div>
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83. Letter to the President (Tupac Shakur)<o:p></o:p></div>
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84. Tear Stained Letter (Johnny Cash)<o:p></o:p></div>
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85. Letter Never Sent (REM)<o:p></o:p></div>
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86. A Perfect Sonnet (Bright Eyes)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lately I’ve been wishing I had one
desire<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Something that would make me never
want another<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Something that would make it so
that nothing mattered<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All would be clear then<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But I guess I’ll have to settle for
a few brief moments<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And watch it all dissolve into a
single second<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And try to write it down into a
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87. Wrapped Up in Books (Belle and Sebastian)<o:p></o:p></div>
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88. Which Has Not Been Written (Fastback)<o:p></o:p></div>
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89. Song For Whoever (The Beautiful South)<o:p></o:p></div>
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90. Paragraph President (Blackalicious)<o:p></o:p></div>
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91. The Book of Right-on (Joanna Newsom)<o:p></o:p></div>
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92. Breathe (Anna Nalick)<o:p></o:p></div>
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93. Quill (Richard Sanderson)<o:p></o:p></div>
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94. Oxford Comma (Vampire Weekend)<o:p></o:p></div>
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95. I Love You Period (Dan Baird)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love you period<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please, please exclamation point<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I want to hold you in parentheses<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first thing one notices upon entering Ron Muszalski’s ground-floor
apartment is not necessarily the assortment of golf posters and prints covering
the walls. It isn’t the myriad golf postcards and ashtrays and statuettes, nor
even the collection of hats—from Merion, Oakmont, Olympic, Cypress Point—that decorate
the single sofa in the tiny one-bedroom rental.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s the books. Enough to make a library blush. So many that his
apartment seems to be more of a repository than a place of residence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bookshelves line the walls, floor to ceiling, of his bedroom. They crowd
the hallway that leads to the bathroom. They block the entrance to a closet and
obstruct his view through the living room window, the one looking toward the
third fairway of the Pacific Grove Golf Links, the so-called Poor Man’s Pebble
Beach on California’s Monterey Peninsula. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Muszalski—who, like a good golf score, is a shade under 80—caddied at
Medinah during the Truman Administration. He managed Cambridge Golf Antiques at
Pebble Beach for a dozen years. He now survives on Social Security checks, a
large portion of which he devotes to his obsession. “I’m a bibliomaniac,” he
says proudly, and his golf book collection now numbers more than 6,000 volumes.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He owns the classics, of course—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Golf
in the Kingdom</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dead Solid Perfect</i>,
books by George Plimpton and John Updike and Herbert Warren Wind. But lots of
people have those. Muszalski, who meticulously restores old books, prefers to
brag about his obscure titles. His collection, which has earned the attention
of world-class bibliophile Alastair Johnston, includes titles like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Golf and the Stranglehold</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">89 Years in a Sandtrap</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kill It Before It Moves</i>. He owns a
17-page booklet published in Pakistan, a compendium of fatherly advice called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Littlest at Golf</i>. His oldest book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Traditions of Edinburgh</i>, was published
in 1868.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of his newest books? Well, that would be mine. Having caught a
glimpse of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/francis-and-eddie.html" target="_blank">Francis and Eddie</a></i>, my 32-page
picture book about the wondrous 1913 U.S. Open, Muszalski invited me to autograph
a copy and wander through his bookshelves. I was honored to have the book join
his collection and, frankly, a bit curious about something that had been
nagging at me for some time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where are all the golf books for kids?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The best sports literature in the world is golf literature,” he said,
as he guided me through his bookshelves. But as he held up a computer printout
of all the children’s books about golf that he owns (his list is carefully
catalogued), he shook his head and added, “Not for kids, though. Not that
much.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indeed, of his more than 6,000 volumes about golf, fewer than 60 were
created for young readers. Of course, Muszalski is discriminating in his taste.
A book has to be of a certain quality—compelling, historical, dazzling, at
least unusual—to meet his standards. But still, a few dozen books? “And that’s more
than a hundred year’s worth,” he said, handing me the sparse kids’ list that
includes everything from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Michael and
Patsy on the Golf Links</i> (1933) to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Curious
George Plays Mini Golf</i> (2008). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I want to know why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also wanted to know which children’s books Muszalski would place in
his top 18—that’s the through line of this <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/blog-the-why-not-100.html" target="_blank">Why Not 100</a> post. Fiction,
nonfiction, history, poetry, whatever. I’ll be interspersing that collection throughout
this story, but I’ll immodestly begin with the most recent book on it: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Francis and Eddie: The True Story of America’s Underdogs</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Why Not Books, 2013)</span> </li>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When artist (and ardent golfer) Zachary Pullen and I discussed the
notion of creating a beautifully-illustrated children's book about Francis
Ouimet's stunning victory in 2013, we were stunned to discover that it had
never been done. Sure, Mark Frost's 2002 masterwork, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Greatest Game Ever Played</i>, was a bestseller, followed soon by a
Disney movie. But here is golf's most remarkable underdog tale, and there is a
loyal and lovable 10-year-old at the heart of the story, yet in 100 years the
inspiring partnership between 20-year-old Francis Ouimet and little caddie
Eddie Lowery never had been distilled into a version that could appeal to young
would-be golf fans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And maybe that's part of the problem. A few years ago, the National Golf
Foundation revealed that the number of golfers aged 6-17 had dropped by nearly
25 percent between 2005 and 2008. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wall
Street Journal</i> picked up on the story, lamenting that the game remained too
intimidating for beginners. There have been many laudable attempts to remedy
the situation on the golf course—The First Tee, U.S. Kids Golf, PGA of
America's "Tee It Forward" campaign. But maybe part of the solution
lies not on the links but in the literature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twice as Good </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by Richard Michelson
(Sleeping Bear Press, 2012): An illustrated history of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Powell and Clearview, the only
golf course designed, built and owned by an African-American.</span></li>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The thinking seems to be that golf books for children don't sell because
it is a sport with limited appeal to the very young, either on the tee or the
TV. But to attract kids to a sport you have to draw them to the stories. You
have to educate them (entertainingly) about historic moments and make them feel
as if another one can happen at any time. Golf has as many riveting tales and
remarkable characters as most any sport, not to mention landscapes and images
that beg to be memorialized in picture books. Michelson’s book is a great
addition. But where are the other books like that? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As for fiction, for kids, about golf, there are some options. These five
from Muszalski’s list offer a slice of gravitas with their greenside bunkers: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Night Golf</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by William Miller (Lee & Low, 1999):
The poignant tale of a young African-American boy in the 1950s South who
can only play the game he loves by playing at night.</span> </li>
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(Pebble Beach Press, 1993): A </span><span style="background: white;">Japanese
boy grows up with the dream of following in his father's footsteps as a
professional golfer in the United States.</span> </li>
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Brown, 1961): A story that follows a boy’s life from his caddie
experiences to competition.</span> </li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Champion Caddy</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Marion Renick
(Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943): A 131-page work of fiction, including
drawings by John Fulton.</span> </li>
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Amber Lee Sellers (Coaches Choice, 2009): A young boy stumbles upon a box
containing a note and twelve dirty golf balls. <o:p></o:p></li>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But much of golf fiction is limited to lighter fare—whimsical
picture books like the following: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lil’ Jordan’s 9 Holes of Fear</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Johnny Eugenio (Dove
Books, 2009): A 48-page, playfully illustrated work of fiction that comes
with a read-along CD.</span> </li>
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Smith (CTL Publishing, 1999): A cast of cartoon children enjoy a day at a
country club.</span> </li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bumps: The Golf Ball Kid and Little Caddie</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Valrie McMahan (Roycrofters, 1929): An odd and rare volume
written during Bobby Jones’s heyday.</span> </li>
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And besides, think of all the children’s fiction about baseball.
One of my Why Not 100 blogs <u>(</u><a href="http://thewhynot100.blogspot.com/2015/04/99-hard-hitting-baseball-mysteries.html?spref=tw" target="_blank">“99 hard-hitting baseball mysteries”</a><u>)</u>
includes 39 books for kids. And those are just under the category of baseball
mystery stories. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I’m more curious about this: Why haven’t golf’s true stories been
told for a younger audience? There have been football books for kids about the
Gipper’s inspiring speech. Why not one about Ben Hogan's inspiring comeback?
I've seen a number of children's tales about Babe Ruth's "called
shot" (which likely didn't happen), but none about Gene Sarazen's
"shot heard 'round the world" (which most certainly did). Boston icon
Bobby Orr has been the subject of a picture book. So why hasn't Boston icon
Francis Ouimet been immortalized in that manner until now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kids love an underdog and tales of loyalty and teamwork. So how is it
that a century went by without someone realizing that the event celebrated in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Francis and Eddie</i> may be the only
championship story in sports with a 10-year-old involved every step of the way?
We have the ultimate underdog protagonist in Ouimet, hoping to prove his worth
against the world’s elite. And we have a partnership that launched a lifelong
friendship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Consider the most celebrated title-winning moments in history, many of
which have been re-told in books for kids. I would argue that the
Francis-and-Eddie tale trumps them all. Seabiscuit? Remarkable horse, but at
least he had a pedigree (a grandson of Man o’ War, no less). Ouimet was the son
of a French-Canadian immigrant who toiled as a gardener and dismissed golf as a
pastime for the leisure class. The Miracle on Ice? It’s an iconic
local-kids-make-good tale. But does it get any more local than living <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">across the street</i> from The Country Club
in Brookline?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">North Carolina State beating Houston? The triumph over the heralded Phi
Slamma Jamma outfit in the 1983 NCAA basketball tournament is a classic
David-over-Goliath moment. But in the great Harry Vardon and 1912 British Open
champ Ted Ray, the amateur Ouimet took on two professional Goliaths in an
18-hole playoff. It’s as if N.C. State had beaten the L.A. Lakers. Plus, Jim
Valvano’s search for a hug has nothing on Ouimet and his little caddie being
lifted onto a delirious crowd’s shoulders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Baseball? Well, there’s Bobby Thomson’s home run in 1951, and the
Amazin’ Mets in 1969. One was a riveting moment (“The Giants win the pennant!
The Giants win the pennant!”). The other was a compelling narrative, the
ultimate worst-to-first scenario. But Ouimet’s performance offered both
theatrical elements—long putts on the 17<sup>th</sup> green (just a chip shot
from his house) that elicited roars heard across the Atlantic, as well as a
storyline that took the golfer (and his diminutive caddie) from unknown to
legendary. Not a single spectator followed the duo after his opening tee shot
during a qualifying round. By the end, more than 10,000 Bostonians were lining the
fairways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How about football then? Well, below zero temperatures ratcheted up the
drama during the 1967 Ice Bowl between Dallas and Green Bay. But that’s still
football weather. Much of Ouimet’s feat was accomplished amid a downpour and
powerful gusts portending the winds of change in American golf. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there’s that, too—a sport’s transformation. Two years after the Ice
Bowl, New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath famously guaranteed a victory over
the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts. His win legitimized the upstart American
Football League, which was essentially half of professional football.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>However, Ouimet’s performance in Brookline catapulted an entire sport
into national prominence. As a <i>Life</i>
magazine feature declared a half-century later, “He put golf on Page One.”</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Francis and Eddie is now for sale at the World Golf Hall of Fame, which
is appropriate, of course. Ouimet was one of the original inductees. There are
a bunch of folks who think Eddie Lowery should be in there, too. It’s also
being sold at the USGA Museum, which devotes a single shelf in its gift shop to
children’s picture books about golf. Mostly, I found “Peanuts” books about
golf. But there were also some of these books from Muszlaski’s list (one of
which happens to be my OTHER picture book about golf): <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The ABC’s of Golf</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Susan Greene (Excel,
1996): A simple but popular alphabet romp through golf and by an author
who has written several other golf books for kids.</span> </li>
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amazingly illustrated trip through golf’s basic elements and icons, from A
(amateurs) and B (birdies) to Y (yips) and Z (Zaharias).</span></li>
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(Charles E. Tuttle, 1967): Humorous rhymes and whimsical drawings about
golf. It was originally published in 1898 and is quite rare.</span></li>
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(Picture Window Books, 2006): A brief introduction to the game of golf for
ages five and up.</span></li>
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However, it’s time to move beyond sticker books, beyond how-to, and yes,
beyond alphabets. I’m glad that the story of the ultimate gentleman amateur and
the four-foot-tall caddie with the outsized composure has finally found its way
into the pages of a book for kids who might be inspired to try the game. I hope
it’s just a start—not for my book, but for all golf books for kids. Maybe this
will launch a wave of realizations—that golf literature can apply to golf
neophytes and that the game’s history is brimming with tales that might inspire
them. Biographies are always a nice place to start a history education, and
Muszalski praises these fine ones for young readers:</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Babe: Mildred Didrikson Zaharias</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Beatrice S. Smith (Raintree, 1976): A biography of one of
the greatest female golfers and perhaps the best all-around female athlete
in history.</span> </li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arnold Palmer</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Golf Digest editors
(Grosset & Dunlap, 1967): The story of the King, written at the peak
of his career.</span> </li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tiger Woods: Golfing Champion</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by David R. Collins
(Pelican Publishing, 1999): The story of Tiger Woods’s rise to stardom,
written for middle schoolers.</span></li>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But beyond Tiger and Arnie, I want to see biographies written for kids
about Lee Trevino and Ken Venturi and Nancy Lopez. I want to see Chi Chi
Rodriguez as a swashbuckling pirate and Walter Hagen as a larger-than-life
dandy. I want to read riveting children’s tales of Byron Nelson’s streak and
Sam Snead’s creative putting and Seve Ballesteros’ brave battles on and off the
course. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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willing to be patient. One shot at a time, one book at a time. For starters,
I’d like to see Curious George at Augusta. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brad Herzoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431652776641926507noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559177400219664871.post-56860115006755951782015-06-07T05:00:00.000-07:002015-10-14T21:48:38.822-07:0090 BRILLIANT BURMA SHAVE SIGNS<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Poetry can be very moving. It can
also be poetry in motion—literally. The best examples of that are the old
Burma-Shave signs from the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century. I’m too young to have
seen any in person, but I would have loved them while cruising along a blue
highway in a house on wheels—in part for the smile, but also for the writing
skills. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s a brief history: In the
1920s, a fellow named Alan Odell was selling Burma-Shave, a shaving cream
produced by his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came up with
an idea: He posted a series of signs (usually four or five) set about 100 feet
apart, that were welcome eye-openers for weary drivers. The first signs arose
on rural highways in Minnesota, and those didn’t even rhyme. Eventually, there
were some 7,000 sets of signs in 45 states, punny little verses that touted the
shaving product, of course, but often also romance and safe driving. For
example:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Given that I shave once a week, I may
not agree with the premise. But I applaud the playful sense of humor.
Burma-Shave never advertised on radio or TV. And eventually, the company’s
famous signs fell victim to the emergence of the Interstate Highway System
(sign placement was calibrated to achieve maximum effect at about 35 miles per
hour). When Philip Morris purchased Burma-Shave in 1963, the new owners put an
end to the sign campaign. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So a half-century later, and after
a bit of research, we at the <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/blog-the-why-not-100.html" target="_blank">Why Not 100</a> would like to pay homage to the
roadside laughs and the scribes who created them by offering our 90 favorite
Burma-Shave sequences, beyond the first one above:</div>
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2. HEAVEN’S LATEST</div>
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NEOPHYTE</div>
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SIGNALED LEFT</div>
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THEN TURNED RIGHT</div>
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3. IS HE LONESOME</div>
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OR JUST BLIND –</div>
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THE GUY WHO DRIVES</div>
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SO CLOSE BEHIND?</div>
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4. CANDIDATE
SAYS</div>
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CAMPAIGN
CONFUSING</div>
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BABIES
KISS ME</div>
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SINCE
I’VE BEEN USING</div>
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5. THE
BEARDED DEVIL</div>
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IS
FORCED TO DWELL</div>
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IN
THE ONLY PLACE</div>
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WHERE
THEY DON’T SELL</div>
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6. MY
JOB IS <br />
KEEPING FACES CLEAN</div>
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AND
NOBODY KNOWS</div>
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DE
STUBBLE I’VE SEEN</div>
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7. PRICKLY PEARS</div>
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ARE PICKED FOR PICKLES</div>
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BUT NO PEACH PICKS</div>
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A FACE THAT PRICKLES</div>
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8. SAID FARMER
BROWN</div>
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WHO’S BALD ON TOP</div>
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WISH I COULD</div>
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ROTATE THE CROP</div>
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9. DIPLOMACY IS</div>
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TO DO AND SAY</div>
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THE NASTIEST THINGS</div>
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IN THE NICEST WAY</div>
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10. HER CHARIOT
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AT EIGHTY PER</div>
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THEY HAULED AWAY</div>
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WHAT HAD BEN HUR</div>
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11. THIS
CREAM MAKES</div>
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THE
GARDENER’S DAUGHTER</div>
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PLANT
HER TU-LIPS</div>
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WHERE
SHE OUGHTER</div>
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12. A
NUT AT THE WHEEL</div>
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A
PEACH ON HIS RIGHT</div>
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A
CURVE IN THE ROAD</div>
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FRUIT SALAD THAT NIGHT</div>
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13. CATTLE
CROSSING</div>
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PLEASE
DRIVE SLOW</div>
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THAT
OLD BULL</div>
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IS
SOME COW’S BEAU</div>
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14. SHE
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AND
SAID, “NO DICE</div>
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THE
WEDDING’S OFF</div>
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I’LL
COOK THE RICE”</div>
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15. SOAP MAY DO</div>
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FOR LADS WITH FUZZ</div>
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BUT SIR, YOU AIN’T</div>
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HE KID YOU WUZ</div>
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16. CAUTIOUS RIDER</div>
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TO HER RECKLESS DEAR</div>
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LET’S HAVE LESS BULL</div>
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AND LOTS MORE STEER</div>
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17. SPECIAL SEATS<br />
RESERVED IN HADE</div>
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FOR WHISKERED GUYS</div>
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WHO SCRATCH THEIR LADIES</div>
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18. THE
HERO WAS BRAVE<br />
AND STRONG AND WILLIN’</div>
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SHE
FELT HIS CHIN</div>
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THEN WED THE VILLAIN</div>
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19. SLOW
DOWN, PA</div>
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SAKES
ALIVE</div>
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MA
MISSED SIGNS</div>
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FOUR AND FIVE</div>
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20. THE
BEARDED LADY</div>
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TRIED
A JAR</div>
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SHE’S
NOW</div>
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A
FAMOUS MOVIE STAR</div>
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21. IF
YOU THINK</div>
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SHE
LIKES YOUR BRISTLES</div>
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WALK
BARE-FOOTED</div>
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THROUGH
SOME THISTLES</div>
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22. DOESN’T
KISS YOU</div>
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LIKE
SHE USEDTER?</div>
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PERHAPS
SHE’S SEEN</div>
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A
SMOOTHER ROOSTER</div>
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23. THE
OTHER WOMAN</div>
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IN
HIS LIFE</div>
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SAID
“GO BACK HOME</div>
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AND
SCRATCH YOUR WIFE.”</div>
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24. HE
HAD THE RING</div>
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HE
HAD THE FLAT</div>
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BUT
SHE FELT HIS CHIN</div>
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AND
THAT WAS THAT</div>
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25. BEFORE
I TRIED IT</div>
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THE KISSES I MISSED</div>
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BUT AFTERWARD-BOY!</div>
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THE MISSES I KISSED</div>
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26. PEDRO
WALKED</div>
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BACK
HOME BY GOLLY</div>
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HIS
BRISTLY CHIN</div>
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WAS
HOT-TO-MOLLY</div>
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27. USE
THIS CREAM</div>
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A
DAY OR TWO</div>
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THEN
DON’T CALL HER</div>
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SHE’LL
CALL YOU</div>
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28. THE
POOREST GUY</div>
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IN
THE HUMAN RACE</div>
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CAN
HAVE A</div>
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MILLION
DOLLAR FACE</div>
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29. HENRY
VIII</div>
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SURE
HAD TROUBLE</div>
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SHORT
TERM WIVES</div>
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LONG
TERM STUBBLE</div>
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30. DON’T
STICK YOUR ELBOW<br />
OUT TOO FAR</div>
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OR
IT MAY GO HOME</div>
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IN
ANOTHER CAR</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. SUBSTITUTES</div>
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ARE
LIKE A GIRDLE</div>
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THEY
FIND SOME JOBS</div>
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THEY
JUST CAN’T HURDLE</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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32. SUBSTITUTES</div>
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CAN
LET YOU DOWN</div>
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QUICKER
THAN</div>
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A
STRAPLESS GOWN</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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33. PAST
SCHOOLHOUSES</div>
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TAKE
IT SLOW</div>
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LET
THE LITTLE</div>
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SHAVERS
GROW</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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34. THE
PLACE TO PASS</div>
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ON
CURVES YOU KNOW</div>
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IS
ONLY AT</div>
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A
BEAUTY SHOW</div>
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<br /></div>
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35. IF
YOUR PEACH</div>
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KEEPS
OUT OF REACH</div>
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BETTER PRACTICE</div>
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WHAT
WE PREACH</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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36. BURMA-SHAVE</div>
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WAS
SUCH A BOOM</div>
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THEY
PASSED THE BRIDE</div>
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AND
KISSED THE GROOM</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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37. TO
KISS A MUG</div>
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THAT’S
LIKE A CACTUS</div>
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TAKES
MORE NERVE</div>
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THAN
IT DOES PRACTICE</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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38. ALTHOUGH
INSURED</div>
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REMEMBER,
KIDDO</div>
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THEY
DON’T PAY YOU</div>
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THEY PAY YOUR WIDOW</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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39. TRAIN
APPROACHING</div>
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WHISTLE SQUEALING</div>
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PAUSE! AVOID THAT</div>
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RUNDOWN FEELING</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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40. SPRING
HAS SPRUNG</div>
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THE
GRASS HAS RIZ</div>
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WHERE
LAST YEAR’S </div>
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CARELESS DRIVER IS</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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41. PROPER
DISTANCE<br />
TO HIM WAS BUNK</div>
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THEY
PULLED HIM OUT</div>
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OF
SOME GUY’S TRUNK</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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42. MY
CHEEK SAYS SHE</div>
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IS
SMOOTH AS SATIN</div>
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HA!
HA! SAY SHE</div>
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THAT’S
MINE YOUR PATTIN’</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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43. UNLESS
YOUR FACE</div>
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IS
STINGER FREE</div>
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YOU
BETTER LET</div>
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YOUR
HONEY BE</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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44. A
BEARD THAT’S ROUGH</div>
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AND
OVERGROWN</div>
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IS
BETTER THAN</div>
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A
CHAPERONE</div>
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45. THE
HOBO LET HIS</div>
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WHISKERS
SPROUT</div>
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IT’S
TRAINS—NOT GIRLS</div>
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THAT
HE TAKES OUT</div>
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<br /></div>
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46. DINAH DOESN’T<o:p></o:p></div>
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TREAT HIM RIGHT<o:p></o:p></div>
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BUT IF HE’D SHAVE<o:p></o:p></div>
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DINAH-MITE!<o:p></o:p></div>
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47. ON CURVES AHEAD<o:p></o:p></div>
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REMEMBER, SONNY<o:p></o:p></div>
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THAT RABBIT’S FOOT<o:p></o:p></div>
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DIDN’T SAVE THE BUNNY<o:p></o:p></div>
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48. TO KISS A MUG<o:p></o:p></div>
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THAT’S LIKE A CACTUS<o:p></o:p></div>
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TAKES MORE NERVE<o:p></o:p></div>
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THAN IT DOES PRACTICE<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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49. THE ANSWER TO</div>
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A MAIDEN PRAYER</div>
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IS NOT A CHIN</div>
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OF STUBBY HAIR</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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50. I
KNOW HE’S A WOLF</div>
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SAID
RIDING HOOD</div>
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BUT
GRANDMA DEAR</div>
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HE
SMELLS SO GOOD</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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51. A
CHIN WHERE</div>
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BARBED
WIRE BRISTLES STAND</div>
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IS
BOUND TO BE</div>
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A
NO MA’AMS LAND</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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52. TO
STEAL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A KISS</div>
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HE
HAD THE KNACK</div>
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BUT
LACKED THE CHEEK</div>
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TO
GET ONE BACK</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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53. IT
GAVE MACDONALD</div>
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THAT
NEEDED CHARM</div>
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HELLO
HOLLYWOOD</div>
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GOOD-BY
FARM</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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54. AROUND
THE CURVE</div>
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LICKETY-SPLIT</div>
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IT’S
A BEAUTIFUL CAR</div>
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WASN’T
IT?</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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55. WE
CAN’T PROVIDE YOU</div>
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WITH A DATE</div>
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BUT WE DO SUPPLY</div>
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THE BEST DARN BAIT</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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56. SUBSTITUTES</div>
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CAN DO MORE HARM</div>
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THAN CITY FELLERS</div>
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ON A FARM</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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57. THE ONE WHO
DRIVES WHEN</div>
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HE’S BEEN DRINKING</div>
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DEPENDS ON YOU</div>
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TO DO HIS THINKING</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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58. VIOLETS ARE
BLUE<br />
ROSES ARE PINK</div>
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ON GRAVES OF THOSE</div>
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WHO DRIVE AND DRINK</div>
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<br /></div>
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59. HE TRIED TO
CROSS</div>
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AS FAST TRAIN NEARED</div>
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DEATH DIDN’T DRAFT HIM</div>
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HE VOLUNTEERED</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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60. “NO,
NO,” SHE SAID</div>
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TO
HER BRISTLY BEAU</div>
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I’D
RATHER EAT</div>
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THE
MISTLETOE</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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61. IF
ANYTHING</div>
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WILL
PLEASE YOUR JILL</div>
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A
LITTLE JACK</div>
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FOR
THIS JAR WILL</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
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62. THE
BIG BLUE TUBE’S</div>
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JUST
LIKE LOUISE</div>
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YOU GET A THRILL</div>
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FROM
EVERY SQUEEZE</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
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63. ANGELS
WHO GUARD YOU</div>
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WHEN
YOU DRIVE</div>
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USUALLY
RETIRE</div>
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AT
SIXTY-FIVE</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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64. THE
MONKEY TOOK<br />
ONE LOOK AT JIM<br />
AND THREW THE PEANUTS<br />
BACK AT HIM<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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65. THE
DRAFTEE TRIED</div>
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A
TUBE AND PURRED</div>
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WELL
WHADDYA KNOW</div>
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I’VE
BEEN DEFURRED</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
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66. THIS
COOLING SHAVE</div>
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WILL
NEVER FAIL</div>
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TO
STAMP ITS USER</div>
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FIRST
CLASS MALE</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
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67. MEN
WITH WHISKERS</div>
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‘NEATH
THEIR NOSES</div>
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OUGHTA
HAVE TO KISS</div>
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LIKE
ESKIMOSES</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
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68. PASSING
CARS<br />
WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE</div>
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MAY
GET YOU A GLIMPSE</div>
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OF
ETERNITY</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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69. IF
DAISIES ARE</div>
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YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER</div>
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KEEP PUSHIN’ UP</div>
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THOSE MILES-PER-HOUR</div>
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70. HE
LIT A MATCH<br />
TO CHECK GAS TANK</div>
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THAT’S
WHY THEY CALL HIM</div>
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SKINLESS
FRANK</div>
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71. THIRTY
DAYS</div>
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HATH
SEPTEMBER</div>
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APRIL,
JUNE,</div>
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AND
THE SPEED OFFENDER</div>
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72. DIM
YOUR LIGHTS</div>
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BEHIND
A CAR</div>
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LET
FOLKS SEE</div>
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HOW
BRIGHT YOU ARE</div>
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73. BEN
MET ANNA</div>
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MADE
A HIT</div>
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NEGLECTED
BEARD</div>
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BEN-ANNA
SPLIT</div>
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74. HE
PLAYED THE SAX</div>
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HE
HAD NO B.O.</div>
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BUT
HIS WHISKERS SCRATCHED</div>
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SO
SHE LET HIM GO</div>
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75. YOU
CAN DRIVE</div>
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A
MILE A MINUTE</div>
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BUT
THERE IS NO</div>
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FUTURE
IN IT</div>
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76. IF
HUGGING ON HIGHWAYS<br />
IS YOUR SPORT<br />
TRADE IN YOUR CAR</div>
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FOR
A DAVENPORT</div>
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77. THIS
SHAVE IS LIKE</div>
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A
PARACHUTE</div>
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THERE
ISN’T ANY</div>
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SUBSTITUTE</div>
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78. IF
YOU MUST TEST</div>
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HER
PUCKER PAINT</div>
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BE
SURE TO DRIVE</div>
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WHERE
TRAFFIC AIN’T</div>
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79. I’D HEARD IT
PRAISED</div>
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BY DRUG STORE CLERKS</div>
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I TRIED THE STUFF</div>
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HOT DOG! IT WORKS</div>
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80. WITHIN THIS
VALE</div>
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OF TOIL AND SIN</div>
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YOUR HEAD GROWS BALD</div>
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BUT NOT YOUR CHIN</div>
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81. FROM NEW YORK
TOWN</div>
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TO PUMPKIN HOLLER</div>
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IT’S HALF A POUND</div>
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FOR HALF A DOLLAR</div>
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82. SAID JULIET</div>
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TO ROMEO</div>
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IF YOU DON’T SHAVE</div>
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GO HOMEO</div>
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83. SHAVING BRUSHES</div>
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YOU’LL SOON SEE ‘EM</div>
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ON A SHELF</div>
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IN SOME MUSEUM</div>
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84. IF HARMONY</div>
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IS WHAT YOU CRAVE</div>
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THEN GET A TUBA</div>
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BURMA-SHAVE</div>
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85. IF YOU DON’T
KNOW</div>
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WHOSE SIGNS THESE ARE</div>
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YOU HAVEN’T DRIVEN</div>
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VERY FAR</div>
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86. WE’RE WIDELY
READ</div>
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AND OFTEN QUOTED</div>
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BUT IT’S SHAVES NOT SIGNS</div>
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FOR WHICH WE’RE NOTED</div>
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87. THESE SIGNS ARE
NOT</div>
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FOR LAUGHS ALONE</div>
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THE FACE THEY SAVE</div>
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MAY BE YOUR OWN</div>
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<br /></div>
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88. DON’T TAKE A CURVE</div>
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AT 60 PER</div>
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WE’D HATE TO LOSE</div>
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A CUSTOMER</div>
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89. WE KNOW HOW MUCH</div>
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YOU LOVE THAT GAL</div>
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BUT USE BOTH HANDS</div>
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FOR DRIVING, PAL</div>
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90. FAREWELL O VERSE</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eragon. The Outsiders.
The Diary of a Young Girl</i>. All three books, classics in their genres, were
written by teenagers. While electronic publishing and purchasing has
revolutionized the book industry, the trend toward democratic publishing—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">if it’s good, it’s good</i>—has also meant
that an increasing number of ultra-talented young writers have emerged as
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We at <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/" target="_blank">Why Not Books</a> are particularly proud of our prodigy. We
didn’t allow ourselves abnormally high expectations upon publishing (in 2012)
11-year-old Luke Herzog’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/dragon-valley.html" target="_blank">Dragon Valley</a></i>—his
200-page fantasy novel about five baby dragons spawned in a laboratory, who are
set free in a magical valley and navigate the evolution of themselves and their
home over the next thousand years (there’s even a map and an extensive
character glossary). Sure, children’s authors like Newbery Award-winner Kwame
Alexander compared him to a young Rick Riordan, but we wondered: How would young readers
react to a young writer? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then we began to fulfill book orders from all over the
country, and Luke started to receive emails from kids… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s my favorite book. I’ve read it five times… I did a book report
about it for school… I made a sculpture of Blue, the water dragon. Here’s a
photo</i>… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Can’t wait for the sequel…</i>
All the while, he was busy writing his second novel, a fantastic fantasy tale
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/griffin-blade-and-the-bronze-finger.html" target="_blank">Griffin Blade and the BronzeFinger</a></i>, the story of a good-hearted rogue who learns—during an epic journey
of adventure and redemption—that his attempt to retrieve a personal treasure
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So let’s celebrate the imagination—and sometimes, the off-the-charts
talent—of youth by listing some of the most precocious publishing performances
in history. To make this list, you must have been published while you’re still
a teenager, sometimes far younger. So Bret Easton Ellis and Stephen Crane and
Mary Shelley, all of whom first published novels at age 21? Far too old. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Starting with the most recent book but eventually traveling
all the way back to the mid-17<sup>th</sup> century, here are 30 books from 30
prodigies:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fourteen-year-old Luke Herzog’s second fantasy novel,
published by Why Not Books in 2014, is an epic tale set in the land of
Alastian. Griffin Blade is a master thief, apparently orphaned years earlier,
who steals a valuable gem on behalf of a shady character only to have it stolen
from him by a man with only one defining characteristic—a finger made of
bronze. Blade’s quest to find the man and the gem reveals that there is far
more to both of them. He and his eventual traveling band of misfit companions—a
dwarf, a dark elf, a minotaur, a djinn—become the central focus of a battle for
power in Alastian. Along the way, Griffin Blade discovers the hero within and
the truth about his own past. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Just
Jake (by Jake Marcionette, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Publishers Weekly</i>
readers were treated to this bit of news in August 2013: “<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Penguin Young Readers Group's latest debut
author is also one of its target readers: a 13-year-old boy. The division's
Grosset & Dunlap imprint has inked Jake Marcionette to a two-book, North
American rights deal for his middle-grade series, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just Jake</i>. The first book in the series, about a sixth grader
trying to establish his social life at a new school, is set for February 2014… Marcionette,
who began the books when he was 12, writes about a boy named Jake Ali Mathews
whose life is upended after his family moves from Florida to Maryland. In his
new school, Jake struggles to start fresh, while also avoiding the local bully…
PYRG plans to publish the second book in the series in February 2015, and has
an option on the planned third title.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3. Total Teen Adventure</i> (by Tony Budolovic,
2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tony Budolovic was born in 2000. He hates bugs, loves the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter</i> series, sings pretty
well—and writes books. He actually wrote his first, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Way to the Future</i>, a book about dragons, ghosts, and potion
shops, at age 6. At age 10, he published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Total
Teen Adventure</i>, which was about character older than he—teenagers. In the
180-page novel, a group of teens find themselves taken from summer vacations
and tricked into being part of a competition in which everything is secretly
recorded on camera.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">4. The Magnificent King of Pasta</i> (by Jacob
Shaw, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ten-year-old Jacob Shaw weaved the tale of William, the
orphaned son of mixed parentage—in the sense that his father was a wise welder,
but his mother descended from villainous lineage. He wields a heap of magic and
a deep conscience, as he attempts to save Pastaland from the evil Salastro.
Just consider the description—from a fourth-grader: “<span style="background: #FAFAFA;">The windows, skewed and rotated on their axis, were trimmed with a
cheap glaze that could pass for gold leaf, contrasting with that pale blue,
speckled paint that covered most of the rest of the house. The color scheme
moderately mirrored that of a robin’s egg, if he were to have bred with the
famous fairytale’s swan-who-lays-golden-eggs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Take a couple of dyslexic identical twins, give them
matching writing skills and creativity, then be doubly impressed. By age 12,
Brianna and Brittany Winner had finished their first novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Strand Prophecy</i>. The following year,
it reached national distribution through Barnes & Noble, and the Winners
won a Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Adolescent Fiction. Before they even
finished high school, they completed four novels (including the next two books
in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strand </i>series), a guide to
writing, a screenplay, and a comic book—and they started a nonprofit called
Motivate 2 Learn, its aim being to inspired young readers and writers to
overcome any obstacles in their way.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">6. How to Talk to Girls</i> (by Alec Greven,
2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
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He became a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York
Times</i> bestselling self-help author—at the age of nine. Alec has seen the
error of his friends’ ways when they tried to talk to girls, so he told him
(and thousands of other readers) how to do it. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ditch your sweatpants. Comb your hair. Don’t look desperate.</i> He
soon booked TV interviews with the likes of Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, and Ellen
DeGeneres, and he later wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Talk
to Moms</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Talk to Dads</i>, and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Talk to Santa</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy Yi Fan was born and raised in Beijing, but moved to
Syracuse, New York, at age seven. As a sixth-grader, when she began to learn
more about the September 11<sup>th</sup> terrorist attacks, she awoke from a
vivid dream about birds and decided to sit down at her computer and write a
manuscript that might somehow convey a message of peace. The result: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swordbird—</i>about the bluejays and
cardinals in Stone-Run Forest. It was eventually published by HarperCollins in
2008. First printing: 50,000 books. She followed that with a prequel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sword Quest</i>, and a third book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sword Mountain</i>. Currently, she attends
Harvard University. She also has three pet birds.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">8. Maradonia and the Seven Bridges</i> (Gloria
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This young San Diegan started writing her first book when
she was 10. She celebrated her 13<sup>th</sup> birthday with the publication of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maradonia and the Seven Bridges</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maradonia and the Escape from the Underworld</i>.
Over the next couple of years, she produced four more books in the series—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maradonia and the Gold of Ophir, Maradonia
and the Dragon Riders, Maradonia and the Law of Blood</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maradonia and the Battle for the Key</i>. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">9. Conspiracy of Calaspia</i> (by Suresh and
Jvoti Guptara, 2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
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They’re twins, born in 1988 to an Indian father and British
mother in England. When they were 11, they wrote the first draft of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Conspiracy of Calaspia</i>, a fantasy novel
about Bryn Bellyset (16-year-old heir to a drink empire who races to save
Calaspia from an evil force thought to be extinct). By the time the twins were
17, it was a published bestseller. More than 70,000 copies are in print, and
the book was the first in a trilogy known as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Insanity Saga</i>. The twins are said to be now working on a second series.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10. Help
Hope & Happiness</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (by
Libby Rees, 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When Libby Rees, a
little British girl, was six years old, her parents split up. When she was 9,
she wrote a 60-page book about it, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Help
Hope & Happiness</i>, a self-help guide on how kids can cope with divorce.
It was published a year later by Aultbea Publishing and has been translated
into Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Mandarin. Aultbea signed her for
two more books (a good portion of the money earned going, per her wishes, to
Save The Children). Her second creation, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At
Sixes & Sevens</i>, gives helpful hints for kids moving from primary to
secondary school. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jimmy Carter gave his eulogy. Oprah Winfrey called him one
of her most memorable guests. He lobbied for peace and people with disabilities
on Capitol Hill. He has had foundations, scholarships, public parks, and
special days named in his honor. His words have been put to music in Carnegie
Hall. And he published five books of poetry—starting with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heartsongs</i> when he was still a pre-teen. And all of this before he
passed away just before his 14<sup>th</sup> birthday in 2004. Stepanek finally
succumbed to a rare form of muscular dystrophy, the same disease that took his
sister and two brothers in early childhood, but his message endures.</div>
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Paolini graduated from home-schooled high school at age 15
and started writing a book called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eragon</i>,
set in the mythical land of Alagaesia. His parents’ small publishing company
published it in 2002 when their son was 18, and that summer the stepson of
author Carl Hiaasen discovered the fantasy novel in a bookstore and loved it.
The following year, Hiaasen’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, published a second
edition. It became a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>
bestseller and led to three more books in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inheritance Cycle</i>—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eldest,
Brisingr</i>, and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Inheritance</i>—which
have sold in excess of 33 million copies. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guinness Book of World Records</i> recognizes Paolini as the youngest
author of a bestselling series.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was touted as the “teen successor to Anne Rice,” writing
her first novel, the young adult vampire tale <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In the Forests of the Night</i>, when she was 13. Random House
published it two years later, in 1999, and she earned praise from everyone from
Publishers Weekly to Rosie O’Donnell. Her next novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Demon in my View</i>, was published the following year and was an ALA
Quick Pick for Young Readers. She wrote two more books in the vampire series
over the next two years, then completed a critically acclaimed five-book series
about shapeshifters, She returned to the original series, writing five more
novels, and is now at work on a separate trilogy. Prolific prodigy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">14. French Fries Up Your Nose: 208 Ways to Annoy
People</i> (by Alden Nusser, 1995)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe it’s the kind of book that should be written by a
12-year-old boy. Ninety-six pages, published in 1995 by Camelot, which
describes it thusly: “An <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>irrepressible 12-year-old author
has compiled a funny, winning collection of annoying ways guaranteed to
irritate and amuse at the same time. This outrageously witty book features
memorable tips for being a pest in the car, at the dinner table, and when
shopping for sneakers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">15. The Neon Bible</i> (by John Kennedy Toole,
1989)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toole wrote The Neon Bible at the age of 16 in 1954. It is the
tale of a boy named David who grows up in rural Mississippi in the mid-20<sup>th</sup>-century
and discovers—through one strong memory per chapter—about racial, religious,
social, and sexual bigotry. Toole couldn’t get it published. Then he wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Confederacy of Dunces</i>, which again
found difficulty navigating the publishing gauntlet. Toole committed suicide in
1969. His second book was published posthumously. It won the Pulitzer Prize in
1981. Eight years later, after much in-fighting between Toole’s mother and other
relatives, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Neon Bible</i> was
published. In 1995, a film was released, based on the book.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">16. My Book for Kids with Cansur</i> (by Jason
Gaes, 1987)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jason Gaes, stricken with a rare form of cancer known as
Burkitt’s lymphoma at the age of 7, decided to write a book about—about his
successful two-year battle with the disease, about operations and radiation and
chemotherapy, about how friends don’t laugh at baldness, about how parents can
help and kids can cope. His twin brother, Tim, and older brother, 10-year-old
Adam, illustrated it. In 1987, a company called Melius Peterson published it.
The misspellings remain—“The spinals and bone mairos are bad no matter how far
you count but they go faster if you curl up and try to relacks…”—which makes
the book even more accessible. The subtitle: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Child’s Autobiography of Hope</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17. This Can’t Be Happening at MacDonald Hall</i>
(by Gordon Korman, 1978)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/This_Can't_Be_Happening_at_Macdonald_Hall_1978_first_edition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/This_Can't_Be_Happening_at_Macdonald_Hall_1978_first_edition.jpg" height="200" width="136" /></a>A seventh-grade English teacher required his students to
write a novel during the school year, if you can imagine that. The assignment
became the manuscript for young Gordon Korman’s first book, which was published
by Scholastic Press in 1978. Korman eventually wrote six more books in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MacDonald Hall</i> series and has gone on to
be a prolific author of numerous book series (including several in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">39 Clues</i> series). In all, he has sold
more than 17 million books.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">18. She was Nice to Mice</i> (by Ally Sheedy,
1975)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before she was famed actress Ally Sheedy (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakfast Club</i>), she made a TV
appearance on “To Tell the Truth.” Why? Because she was Alexandra Elizabeth
Sheedy, 12-year-old published author of a historical tale based on the life of
England’s Queen Elizabeth I. The narrator is a little rodent who lives in
Buckingham Palace and meets the queen and William Shakespeare, among others. It
has been described as “the memoirs of a literary mouse.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>19. Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties</i> (Joyce Maynard, 1973)</div>
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Yes, a memoir by a teenager. But she was no ordinary 19-year-old. Maynard won a slew of writing prizes in high school and then was hired by New York Times Magazine to write “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life.” That led to a complimentary letter from 53-year-old J.D. Salinger, which led to two-dozen more letters, which led to an affair and finally co-habitation with the reclusive writer. Per his request, she didn’t mention him in her memoir, although she later got LOTS of attention when she broke her silence in her 1999 memoir Home in the World. She also put Salinger’s letters up for auction. They were purchased for $156,500. She has written several more books, including To Die For, which became a film starring Nicole Kidman.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">20. Letters of Thanks</i> (by Manghanita
Kempadoo, 1969)<o:p></o:p></div>
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A dash of satire, a dollop of parody, and written by a
12-year-old West Indian girl. Kempadoo conceived the book as a series of
increasingly desperate thank-you notes from Lady Huntington, which reflect her
true feelings as her true love, Lord Gilbert, sends her increasingly outlandish
gifts—the actual gifts from “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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A classic. Read by middle schoolers in the 1980s and still
in the 2010s. Susan Eloise Hinton began writing the coming-of-age novel about
young gang members when she was 15. It took her about 18 months to complete it,
and it was published in 1967, when she was 18. Hinton became a household name,
although she was convinced to use a non-gender-specific pen name. The novel was
adapted into a film starring the likes of Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, and Matt
Dillon, and it has sold more than 14 million copies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">22. How the World Began</i> (by Dorothy
Straight, 1964)<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the age of 4, little Dorothy wrote the book for her
grandmother in 1962. Her parents loved it (no surprise), decided to seek out a
publisher (somewhat of a surprise) and found one (big surprise). Pantheon Books
published it in 1964. It’s now considered a rare book, simply because of the
author’s record-setting age.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">23. Arbre mon ami</i> (by Minou Drouet, 1957)<o:p></o:p></div>
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By age 8, the little French girl was such a well-known poet
that the writing community in France was buzzing about her. By age 9, someone
else had published a book about her—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L’Affaire
Minou Drouet</i>. By age 10, she herself was published. Over the next eight
years, she toured as an author, as well as a piano player and guitarist. She
also published three more books in that span. At age 21, she embarked on a
career as a singer-songwriter and children’s novelist.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">24. The Diary of a Young Girl</i> (by Anne
Frank, 1947)<o:p></o:p></div>
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An account of intimate and anguished thoughts, hopes and
frustrations, purity amid persecution, it is arguably the most profound and
respected publication by a young author. She wrote it as a young teenager (she
received the diary on her 13<sup>th</sup> birthday) while confined to an attic,
before her family was betrayed and Anne succumbed to typhus while in a
concentration camp. But after the war her father, Otto, the only survivor of
the family, found that her diary had been saved and saw to its publication in 1947.
It has since been translated into more than 60 languages. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">25. The Far-Distant Oxus</i> (by Katharine Hull
and Pamela Whitlock, 1937)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hull was 14 and Whitlock 15 when the English schoolmates,
while taking shelter from a rainstorm, decided to collaborate on a book for
children and about children—and written by children (or at least
adolescents).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wrote alternate
chapters, and Whitlock added illustrations. One year later, in 1937, their book
(it’s about ponies) was published, the title coming from a Matthew Arnold poem.
Fidra Books reissued the novel seven decades later. As for the girls, they
followed it up with two more books over the next two years.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">26. The House Without Windows</i> (by Barbara
Newhall Follett, 1926)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Follett wrote her first novel at age 12, although she did
receive help from her father, editor Wilson Follett. When she was 13, the book
was published by Knopf, and she became famous. At 14, she published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Voyage of Norman D</i>, which received
more critical acclaim—at about the time her father abandoned her mother for
another woman. Although she continued to write, she never published again. At
age 25, depressed and unhappy in her marriage, she walked out of her apartment
with $30 in her pocket. She was never seen again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Conkling, 1920)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Starting at the age of 4, around when her father died,
precocious little Hilda Conkling—the daughter of poet Grace Conkling—wrote her
own poetry. Usually, she would recite it, and her mother would write it down.
Soon it was being published in magazines like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good Housekeeping</i>. At age 10, her first collection of poetry was
published, followed by another collection two years later called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shoes of the Wind</i>. Two years after that?
A third collection: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silverhorn</i>.</div>
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1919)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Little Daisy finished the manuscript for this book—a novella
about upper class 18<sup>th</sup>-century England—at age 9 in 1890. Twenty-nine
years later, it was published, preserving her juvenile grammar and
spelling—with an introduction by J.M. Barrie, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peter Pan</i>. That’s a bit like a fourth-grader writing a book
today—with a foreword from J.K. Rowling. Still, in the 1920s, Ashford’s name
was sometimes referenced as a means of criticism for a naïve or childish style
of writing, as when Edmund Wilson dismissed F. Scott Fizgerald’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This Side of Paradise</i> as “a classic in a
class with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Young Visiters</i>.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328728929l/905394.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328728929l/905394.jpg" height="200" width="130" /></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">29. Zastrozzi </i>(by Percy Bysshe Shelley,
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Mary Shelley (who wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frankenstein</i>
at age 21) may have been too old for this list, but not her husband. He never
found renown in his lifetime, but posthumously he came to be admired by
everyone from Robert Browning and Oscar Wilde to George Bernard Shaw and Upton
Sinclair. Known for his poetry (including “Prometheus Unbound”), he actually
published two Gothic novels (and two poetry collections) by the time he was 19
years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zastrozzi</i>, he expressed an atheistic worldview through the villain
who lends his name to the book’s title.</div>
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You’d be hard-pressed to come up with an earlier literary
prodigy. Hawkins was a 17<sup>th</sup>-century English Jesuit, son of a
well-known grammarian and physician. At the age of 10, around the year 1639, he
published a translation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Alarum for
Ladyes</i>. A couple of years later, he published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Youth’s Behaviour</i>, or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Decency
in Conversation amongst Men</i>, which went into several editions and was the
kind of book taught in schools (young George Washington dutifully copied the
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Great writing can be a slog—it may reek of natural talent,
but it tends to be the product of musing and pacing and tweaking and editing
and complaining and rearranging. And that’s all in one day. But if we were to search
for the purest form of the written word—literature that comes from the heart,
fully formed, organic—might we find in the simple act of letter writing? Not
necessarily letter writing for posterity’s sake, but also for intimacy. A
letter from a parent to a child. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2014, <a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/" target="_blank">Why Not Books</a> published the co-authored memoirs of
the late Carolyn Goodman. She was the mother of slain civil rights volunteer
Andy Goodman, who was infamously murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964.
But one of my favorite passages from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.whynotbooks.com/my-mantelpiece.html" target="_blank">MyMantelpiece</a></i> is a letter written by Andy’s father, Bobby Goodman, who
somehow managed to be a civil engineer and a dazzling poet simultaneously. It
was sent to his oldest son, Jonathan, when the boy was only a toddler in 1942.
And it was mailed to New York City from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Bobby
was temporarily overseeing a project. Carolyn loved it so much that she saved
it for more than 60 years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is how the letter began: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Dear Jonathan, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Now that your vocabulary has reached the extensive
proportions of many words and varied intonations, and the expression in your
wonderful eyes so filled with your own particular meanings, I think it time we
started to correspond with one another. I’ll write the first letter and you
don’t, unless you wish to, have to answer until you’re off and away to college.
And even then, should the press of higher learning consume too much of your
time, I won’t mind if you don’t write me as much as I might wish, just so long
as you still smile as you do now, and so long as you leap about the world with
the joy of living, of discovering new things, of experimenting with your mind
through the exciting maze of the world’s way. The important thing for both of
us, Jonny, is to keep the spirit you now possess turned toward making the best
of what we find around us, not by acquiescing to all things as they are because
it is too difficult to mold them closer to our own desire, but by seeing our
life as a constant struggle with complacency everywhere.</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Damn, that engineer could write. And it makes me wish I had
better utilized my passion for the written word—starting when my sons were
born, maybe even a few months earlier. Letters as life lessons and legacy—that
would have been nice. Alas, I was busy writing about other people, for other
people. But thanks to Emily Temple, who compiled a list (at <a href="http://flavorwire.com/">flavorwire.com</a>) of
some fascinating letters that iconic writers wrote to their children, I can be
a sort of vicarious author-father. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Temple’s list included letters from…<br />
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*F. Scott Fitzgerald to his young daughter “Pie” (“I<span style="background: white;"> am glad you are happy — but I never believe much in
happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the
stage or the screen or the printed pages, they never really happen to you in
life.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">*Leo Tolstoy to his son Ilya,
who was preparing to marry (“Besides love for you as a son, I have love for you
also as a man standing at the cross-ways.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">*Edgar Rice Burroughs to his
grown daughter Joan (“Yes, the Pacific is some puddle, and at the present
writing I am no puddle jumper.”)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white;">*Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain),
pretending to be Santa Claus in a letter to his three-year-old daughter Susie
(“I have received and read all the letters which you and your little sister
have written me by the hand of your mother and your nurses; I have also read
those which you little people have written me with your own hands—for although
you did not use any characters that are in grown peoples’ alphabet, you used
the characters that all children in all lands on earth and in the twinkling
stars use; and as all my subjects in the moon are children and use no character
but that, you will easily understand that I can read your and your baby
sister’s jagged and fantastic marks without any trouble at all.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">But my three favorite letters
seem to reflect three different stages of relationship between father and
child. One is an attempt to characterize love. One is an attempt to steer a son
toward a path of contentment and self-respect. And one appears to be a father
bridging a distance—physical and otherwise—with his daughter: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">From John Steinbeck to his son, Thom, a teenager
who admitted having a crush on a girl at boarding school, 1958:</span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First—if you are
in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing that can happen to
anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Second—There are
several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing
which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The
other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and
consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the
greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable.
The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release
in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you
had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You say this is
not puppy love. If you feel so deeply—of course it isn’t puppy love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I don’t think
you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted
me to help you with is what to do about it — and that I can tell you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Glory in it for
one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The object of
love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you love
someone—there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that
some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into
consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Girls have a way
of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It sometimes
happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another—but that
does not make your feeling less valuable and good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lastly, I know
your feeling because I have it and I’m glad you have it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We will be glad
to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such
arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She
knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And don’t worry
about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry.
Nothing good gets away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Love, Fa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">From Sherwood Anderson to his 17-year-old son
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The best thing, I
dare say, is first to learn something well so you can always make a living. Bob
seems to be catching on at the newspaper business and has had another raise. He
is getting a good training by working in a smaller city. As for the scientific
fields, any of them require a long schooling and intense application. If you
are made for it nothing could be better. In the long run you will have to come
to your own conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The arts, which
probably offer a man more satisfaction, are uncertain. It is difficult to make
a living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If I had my own
life to lead over I presume I would still be a writer but I am sure I would
give my first attention to learning how to do things directly with my hands.
Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Above all avoid
taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking
about. Most small businessmen say simply — ‘Look at me.’ They fancy that if
they have accumulated a little money and have got a position in a small circle
they are competent to give advice to anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next to
occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few
achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am constantly
amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing,
merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just
drift.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a kind
of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the
shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes
with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Above all I would
like you to see many kinds of men at first hand. That would help you more than
anything. Just how it is to be accomplished I do not know. Perhaps a way may be
found. Anyway, I’ll see you this summer. We begin to pack for the country this
week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With love, Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">From Kurt Vonnegut to his daughter Nanny,
1972:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You should know
that I as a college student didn’t write my parents much. You said all that
really matters in your first letter from out there (unless you get in a jam)—that
you love me a lot. Mark wrote me the same thing recently. That helps, and it
lasts for years. I think I withheld that message from my parents. Either that,
or I said it so often that it became meaningless. Same thing, either way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I promise to take
your advice, to try painting again. I quit when the slightly talented ghost who
had borrowed my hands decided to take his business elsewhere. Everything was
coming together before my eyes for a little while. After that came kindergarten
smears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most letters from
a parent contain a parent’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice. My good
advice to you is to pay somebody to teach you to speak some foreign language,
to meet with you two or three times a week and talk. Also: get somebody to
teach you to play a musical instrument. What makes this advice especially
hollow and pious is that I am not dead yet. If it were any good, I could easily
take it myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the most
startling things that ever happened to me when I was your age had to do with a
woman who was my age now. She didn’t know what to do with her life, and I told
her that the least she could do was to learn to play the piano. But my
apartment isn’t big enough for a piano, and I’m too lazy to move. Edith has the
right idea for lazy people: marry somebody with energy to burn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m going to
England for a week next month — to go to college-town openings there of [the
movie of]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "calibri"; padding: 0in;">Slaughterhouse-Five</span></em>. I will think of you, and I will
remember with pleasure how shy we were, how sort of gummed-up we were. That was
appropriate. It would have been hateful if we had been hilarious, like a father
and daughter in a TV show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Don’t answer this
letter for years. Remember me fondly.<br />
Love – K<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When a
writer is building a character, crafting a back story, or setting a scene,
nothing is an accident. The character lugs around an oversized purse? Speaks
with a slight lisp? Drives a VW bus? Is Canadian by birth? It’s all purposeful.
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With that in
mind, I decided to explore a specific example of the writer’s choice—choosing a
college. A few years ago, I wrote a magazine feature about fictional references
to Cornell University (in novels, short stories, stage plays, screenplays, and
TV scripts). I figured it was a good piece for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cornell Alumni Magazine</i> for three reasons: 1) It was fun research,
2) It was a fascinating journey through the potential reasons why a writer
might inject such a specific college reference, and 3) Cornell seemed like the
perfect tool for exploring the concept. Harvard? There are surely thousands of
literary references. Fresno State? Maybe none. But Cornell holds that middle
ground that makes it ripe for the picking. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In <i>Behind Closed Doors</i> by Shannon McKenna, for instance, a
millionaire’s girlfriend is described thusly: “American citizen, degree from
Cornell, summa cum laude, woo woo, smart cookie. Fluent in six languages, yada,
yada…” But occasionally writers chide Cornell as the college that isn’t in
Cambridge. In the short story “Jim the Man,” Herbert Gold writes, “As a student
at Cornell, Jim had carried a green sack bulging with books because at Harvard
they carried green sacks bulging with books.” And in the movie <i>Stella</i>,
Stephen Collins’ character admits, “I had to fight with my parents to go to
Cornell. They both went to Harvard and think Cornell is slumming it.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The eclectic list of graduates from the university in Ithaca, New
York—in the pages of literature, that is—includes a mobster’s son with a
penchant for property fraud (in <i>The Negative</i> by Michael Covino), a Russian
spy (in <i>Guess Again</i> by Nora Santella), a hotel general manager in the
fictional country of Absurdistan (in Gary Shteyngart’s 2006 novel of the same
name), a dice-shooting pro football player (in <i>Ruffians</i> by Tim Green), a
New York socialite forced into hiding after the murder of her husband (in <i>An
Invisible Woman</i> by Anne Strieber), a celibate porn producer (in <i>P</i>, a
novel by Andrew Lewis Conn), a disillusioned drug addict who sees ghosts (in <i>World’s
End</i> by T.C. Boyle), an obese schizophrenic with an encyclopedic knowledge
of low-budget horror movies (in <i>The Ecstatic</i> by Victor D. Lavelle), a
psychic who lives with nine black cats (in <i>Grave Creek Connections </i>by
Daniel Isaac Morris), a veterinarian in a traveling circus who rooms with a
dwarf clown named Kinko (in Sara Gruen’s <i>Water for Elephants</i>), and a
serial killer (in <i>A Cold and Silent Dying</i>
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All of the
references are intentional. Nicholas Evans, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Horse Whisperer</i>, who decided to give his veterinarian
protagonist a Cornell degree, told me, “After asking a hundred questions about
a character’s background, only a small percentage of the answers finally make
it into the books. But it’s not a waste of time because it helps you build a
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A writer’s choice, however small, might inform the character or imply
or enrich or encapsulate. Or sometimes it simply improves the bit. Back in
2007, on NBC’s “30 Rock,” Tracy Jordan was hoping to add a sycophant or two to
his entourage. He and his crony Dotcom considered their options: <o:p></o:p></div>
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Jay-Z’s entourage.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So there you have it. Cornell as punch line. Or as setting, as plot
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Faux Cornellians have been conjured up by the likes of Kurt
Vonnegut (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cat’s Cradle</i>) and Thomas
Pynchon (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Crying of Lot 49</i>), both
of whom are Cornell grads themselves. Also Philip Roth (<i>Letting Go</i>),
Mary Higgins Clark (<i>Pretend You Don’t See Her</i>), Dan Brown (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Deception Point</i>), and, rather
prolifically, Joyce Carol Oates (in <i>You Must Remember This</i>, <i>We Were
the Mulvaneys</i> and a short story called “Life After High School”). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Twice, Cornell grads in literature have made their way to
the Oval Office, both becoming the nation’s first female president (Florence
Metzger in John Dalmas’ <i>The Second Coming</i> and Harriet Styles in Robert
Skidmore’s <i>The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel</i>). Still, my three
favorite fictional Cornell alumni (in all forms of fiction) are these:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Scarpetta, who was for
many years the fictitious Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of
Virginia, has sleuthed her way through nearly two-dozen novels by Patricia
Cornwell. Amid her back story—born in Miami, raised by Italian-Americans, lost
her father to leukemia when she was only twelve—is this tidbit: She graduated
from Cornell sometime around 1970.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Sideshow Mel</b></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Melvin van
Horne, better known as Sideshow Mel, TV sidekick to Krusty the Klown, was
revealed to be a Cornell grad in the 16</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="text-align: justify;"> season of “The Simpsons.”
This masochist, who has been at the mercy of Krusty’s sadistic sense of humor
for years, has been struck in the head with an axe, kicked headfirst into a
birthday cake, and shot from a cannon. Once he even had liquid nitrogen poured
down his pants. Typical Ivy Leaguer.</span></div>
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On NBC’s “The Office,” Bernard (played by Ed
Helms) constantly and pompously reminded his colleagues that “I went to
Cornell… Ya ever heard of it?” It was a means of revealing his insecurity while
trumpeting his self-importance: “I never studied once. I was drunk the whole
time. And I sang in the a capella group Nothing But Treble.”</div>
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As for a comprehensive reading list, besides Cornwell’s
Scarpetta series, if you root for the Big Red you might enjoy these 65 novels:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/The_Horse_Whisperer_book_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/The_Horse_Whisperer_book_cover.jpg" height="200" width="131" /></a>1.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Cat’s Cradle</i> (Kurt Vonnegut)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Crying of Lot 49</i> (Thomas
Pynchon)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Letting Go</i> (Philip Roth)<o:p></o:p></div>
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4.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Pretend You Don’t See Her</i> (Mary
Higgins Clark)<o:p></o:p></div>
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5.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Deception Point </i>(Dan Brown)<o:p></o:p></div>
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6.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> You Must Remember This</i> (Joyce
Carol Oates)<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We Were the Mulvaneys</i> (Joyce
Carol Oates)<o:p></o:p></div>
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8. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Horse Whisperer</i> (Nicholas Evans)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><i> </i> 9. </o:p><i style="text-align: justify;">The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> (Ana
Brashares)</span></div>
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10.<i> The Second Coming</i> (John Dalmas)<o:p></o:p></div>
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11.<i> The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Robert Skidmore)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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12.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Counterfeit Traitor</i> (Alexander
Klein)<o:p></o:p></div>
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13.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Warning Track (Jack Corrigan)</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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for Lunch </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Haughton Murphy)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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15.<i> A
Venture into Murder </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Henry Kisor)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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16.<i> Weapon
of Seduction </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Maureen Smith)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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17.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Last Guardian</i> (Shane Johnson)<o:p></o:p></div>
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18.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Miss Match</i> (Leslie Carroll)<o:p></o:p></div>
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19.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Fool on the Hill</i> (Matt Ruff) </div>
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20.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Big Kids</i> (Robert Hennemuth)<o:p></o:p></div>
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21.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla</i>
(Nick Fowler)<o:p></o:p></div>
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22.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Yes & No</i> (Linda Tatelbaum)<o:p></o:p></div>
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23.<i> The Common Lot </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Robert Herrick)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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24.<i> From the Valley of the Missing </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Grace Miller White)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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25.<i> Extricating Obadiah </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Joseph C. Lincoln)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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26.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Dread Empire</i> (Linda Ty-Casper)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">28. Shiva Dancing</i> (Bharti Kirchner)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">29. Crossing to Berlin</i> (Fletcher Knebel)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">30. The Five Points</i> (Rocco Dormarunno)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">31. Separations</i> (Oakley Hall)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">32. Out of Order</i> (Bonnie MacDougal)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">33. Crystal Clear</i> (Eugenie Sheppard and Earl
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<i>34. Mists of the Couchsacrage</i> (Alden Dumas)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>35. American Defector</i> (Mark Treston)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>36. Sons of Heaven </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Terence Cheng)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>37. The Pink Ghetto (</i>Liz Ireland) </div>
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<i>38. Bear Hollow</i> (Rod Cochran)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>39. Big Girls Don’t Cry</i> (Connie Briscoe)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>41. Fantasies Online</i> (Lucho Salazar)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>42. Where Do Little Girls Go?</i> (Charlene
Ballengee-Baum)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>43. A Wish… and a Kiss</i> (Margaret St. George)</div>
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<i>44. Break Even</i> (Debra Moore)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>45. The Traveler</i> (Stanley Hill)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>46. The Negative</i> (Michael Covino)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>47. Guess Again</i> (Nora Santella)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">48. Absurdistan</i>
(Gary Shteyngart)</div>
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<i>49. Ruffians</i> (Tim Green)</div>
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<i>50. An Invisible Woman</i> (Anne Strieber)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>51. P</i> (Andrew Lewis Conn)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>52. World’s End</i> (T.C. Boyle)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiUOPxq_XGI_xTOcfthq2Tspq1sl7Tulcym6KQwFrUpy1Ri91mMZadiV3WQ6JBkejr_x1xoD8JVQ1_BL4KHOC57mTpNUpr46rACV_ZMcoi58u7gHEYpuf69zZfRIf6U646RJ48hE1Avf0-gFpzNT1k0y3BsNwQwo_jV4Zj7a1p2udU9Rd4RFAea_wZlTBI6Yw=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/covers/2007/06/05/absurdistan.jpg" /></a><i>53. The Ecstatic</i> (Victor D. Lavelle)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>54. Grave Creek Connections </i>(Daniel Isaac Morris)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>55. Water for Elephants</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> (Sara Gruen)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>56. A Cold and Silent Dying </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Eleanor Taylor Bland)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">57. Circumference of Darkness</i> (Jack
Henderson)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">58. The Salt Point</i> (Paul Russell)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">59. Kingdom of Shadows</i> (Alan Furst)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">60. Characterville</i> (Tom Lonergan)</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">61. The KGB Candidate </i>(Owen Sela)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">62. Behind Closed Doors </i>(Shannon McKenna)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">63. Black Night Bright Dawn </i>(Gene Arthur
Camerik)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">64. Second Helpings </i>(Megan McCafferty)</div>
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<i>65. Crash Dummies </i>(Dennis Weiser)</div>
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