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Word Play

  Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. American humorist and journalist, Roy Blount, Jr., was born on this day in 1941. That’s the thing about writers. We like seeing how words fit together. Sometimes we force them to work together even when they don’t want to. And, if …

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Things to do

  I, uh, I h-have things to do. I’ve put this off for far too long. Bilbo Baggins, as spoken in The Fellowship of the Ring by English actor Ian Holm, born on this day in 1931. Bilbo, of course, had already been off on his great adventure. He gave these words at his hundred …

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