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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Theodore Geisel’s Extraordinary Economy of Words
Theodore Geisel’s friend, Bennett Cerf, once bet him that he could not write a book using fewer than fifty words. Geisel took the bet and won it while creating a literary masterpiece. The result of the bet was Green Eggs and Ham.
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