Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Fourposter |
You make your own bed. Now you've got to sleep in it" is the country cousin of "we aim to please. Will you aim too please?"--a saying that's prominently displayed above some toilets. The latter is a computer printout of the pluses and minuses of the epigrammatic imagination. Concision and compression rank as two if the greatest aspirations of the human spirits while redundancy and prolixity truly suffer fools. On the other hand, there's a whole world of abbreviation mongers who speak only in short hand. "It sounds like a plan," "being on the same page" and "at the end of the day" are the greatest offenders, constituting a lingua Franca that's tantamount to a couple exchanging vows of eternal silence.
read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
and read "Ultimate Rejection!" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
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