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From Dick Margulis: The first editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a Scot named William Smellie, was a distant relative to my wife, whose surname is Smillie, pronounced smiley (the spelling was...
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From Roy Peter Clark: I've been writing a bit lately about famous literary texts and what makes them work. The beginning of "Lolita," say, or the ending of "The Great Gatsby." So I've been thinking...
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