Dorothy Parker
&
Typos in RALPH

Subject: typo on home page?

Dear Lolita:

Should be "...that an inch.." not "than," shouldn't it, in:

Dorothy Parker once shared offices with Robert Benchley: "He and I had an office so tiny than an inch smaller and it would have been adultery."

--- Wanda Felix

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Our Editor responds:

You have just won the Reginald A. Fessenden Memorial Proofreader of the Year Award.

In the same Paris Review interview, Parker reported that she attended the Blessed Sacrament Convent in New York City, and that it "taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser it will erase ink."

And I remember the smell of oilcloth, the smell of nuns' garb. I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

--- Ed

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Subject: God

I just read your review of The Instruction Manual for Receiving God and wanted to let you know I thought it was hilarious! I laughed out loud, in the middle of my work place, and probably looked a little unhinged to people that didn't know I was busily surfing the internet rather than going about normal work duties.

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