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Sunday, September 02, 2018

Another literary influence

At certain times and in particular situations, I feel a peculiar recalcitrance come over me which in part I blame on the deceased humanitarian, Mr. Amory, possibly due to this quote:

"It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons"
~  http://notable-quotes.com/a/amory_cleveland.html

As a kid, my parents let me read anything. I believe this was the book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337142.The_Cat_and_the_Curmudgeon

I also seem to recall that he tried to hold hands with a type of woman he called a "California girl" and she made a fist and he concluded that "California girls" are "very strange."

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-13/news/vw-4307_1_polar-bear

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