At 02:28 PM 11/10/2003 -0800, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 11:59 AM, andrew fildes wrote:
>
>> I was puzzled by this - after all, this is the people who gave us Thurber,
>> etc.
>
>Most Americans don't "get" Thurber. He was fortunate to find a home at the New
>Yorker magazine, not a mass culture publication.
Thurber's one of the few authors who's actually made my wife roar out loud with
laughter. I'm pretty sure she "gets" him.
Garth
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