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Russel and Hazel has the best stuff for writing memoranda. Their store in Edina makes my heart go pitter-pat." (She) was a perceptive, graceful, sophisticated, woman who was sensitive to everybody's weaknesses but her own and found everyone absurd except for herself. She laid great, fastidious stress on small matters of taste and style. She was always augmenting things. Approaching events were never coming, but upcoming. It was not true that she wrote memorandums praising herself and recommending that her authority be enhanced to include all operations; she wrote memoranda. And the prose in the memoranda of others was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous... It never escaped her memory that neither black nor white was a colour, and she never used verbal when she meant oral. A virgin audience was a stimulating opportunity was grist for her mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open her whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apothegms, bon mots, and other pungent sayings. "
- Joseph Heller, augmented.
