Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends. ✨ James Thurber (1996). James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), p.150, Library of America
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