| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 7191 |
| AUTHOR: | James Merrill |
| QUOTATION: | He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On deriving material for three volumes of poetry from Ouija-board sessions with a friend, quoted in George Plimpton ed Writers at Work Viking 84 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Literature: Poets |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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