Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print … - Roy Blount, Jr.

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Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

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