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Don Marquisboss i saw a picture of myself in a paper the other day writing on a typewriter with some of my feet i wish it was as easy as that what i have to do is dive at each key on the machine and bump it with my head and sometimes it telescopes my occiput into my vertebrae and i have a permanent callous on my forehead i am in fact becoming a low brow think of it me with all my learning to become a low brow hoping that you will remain the same i am as ever your faithful little bug archy
-Don Marquis (archy a low brow, from (archy s life of mehitabel)
Donald Robert Perry Marquis. 1878 - 1937. American journalist and humorist, known for his columns The Sun Dial in the New York Sun and The Lantern in the New York Tribune. Among his best known humorous and satirical books are Archy and Mehitabel (1927) and several sequels, a satire on life in the 1920's in terms of a cockroach and a cat.
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