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Gelett Burgess

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If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.


— Gelett Burgess


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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.


— Gelett Burgess


#interest #life #nonsense #requires #serious






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Purporting to be composed of material written by women and rejected by other magazines Le Petit Journal des Refusées was printed on wallpaper and cut to an irregular shape. He was the author of the popular Goops books and he invented the blurb. But wicked boys shattered the emblem of teetotalism with their pea-shooters and now the doctor's heart is heavy within him.

He was the author of the popular Goops books and he invented the blurb. Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30 1866 – September 18 1951) was an artist art critic poet author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine The Lark he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse.

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