The Phantom Tollbooth opened up author Michael Chabon and infected his entire circulatory system. He says, “It was while reading The Phantom Tollbooth that I began to realize, not that I wanted to be a writer (that came a little later, at the mercy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), but something simpler: I had a crush on the English language, one that was every bit as intense, if less advanced, as that from which the augustly named author, Mr. Norton Juster, himself evidently suffered.” (via Books, Inq.)
And I just reread TPT a week or so ago. What a joyful little book!
Last week my wife was quizzing my daughter on her English Lesson and asked, “How do you identify the clauses in a sentence?” I quickly pipped in with my two cents worth, pointing at one of our cats and saying, “The Clawses are in the Pawses.”
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