coming on an old journal entry that read: “i know that four year olds can’t spell very many words, but since she sent a letter to me all glued up in an obviously indestructible envelope that took me twenty minutes and a penknife and some swearing to open, it seems like an awful lot of effort to go to just to get six words from one’s niece.”also ‘twenty minutes and a penknife and some swearing’ is an implied zeugma.
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