“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery…”

hl-mencken“To the [person] with an ear for verbal delicacies — [] who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.” – H.L. Mencken

We’ll hear from Mencken again. He had much to say about politics and politicians.

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