If you haven’t read the poetry and short stories of Dorothy Parker, then you are missing out on one of literature’s wittiest voices. With one expertly placed line, Parker cuts down to the bitter and humorous truths of every day …
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โThere is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer,โ opined my husbandโs favourite poet; I had learned something of the nature of that similarity on my marriage bed. And now my taper showed …