Jan 3, 2010
To say that there are two worlds—the World of Ordinary Men and the World of Thurber—is a cliché that would never have been tolerated by James Thurber himself, for one of the charms of his style is a scrupulous avoidance of anything resembling the trite. Among his many phobias there must have existed the dread of turning a corner in a sentence and being waylaid with a cliché. His precision of language and careful attention to detail are the qualities that infuse his writing with interest and charm, as is his ability to impose a world of fantasy on a world of reality and to achieve...
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