Re: Website -- can you still view


Claire Petersky wrote:
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> Didn't Mark Twain say that you should put "damn" in your writing everywhere
> where you otherwise would say, "very"? And then your editors will strike out
> all the damns, and the piece will read as it should have, anyway.

Well, the editor of the Internet hasn't been doing his job!

- Frank Krygowski

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