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Essay Archive - Richard Lederer: His Works
Richard Lederer: His Works
Richard Lederer was once asked where he would get all these funny stories he
"Ever since I became a writer, I had found that questions the most difficult to
answer and had only recently come up with an analogy that I thought would
satisfy both my audience and me. Pouncing on the opportunity to unveil my
spanking new explanation, I countered with, Where does the spider get its web?
The idea, of course, was that the spider is not aware how it spins out its
intricate and beautiful patterns with the silky material that is simply a
natural part of itself. Asking a writer to account for the genesis of his or her
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