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| November 2, 1961 |
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| James Thurber (1894 - 1961) |
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James Thurber's Comic Vision
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| by Steve King |
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In 1901, six-year old James Thurber lost an eye when he and his brother were playing with their homemade bows and arrows. The damaged eye was not removed quickly, and the good eye became chronically inflamed. By his early fifties, just as the critics were calling him "the greatest and most original humourist this country has produced," Thurber was legally blind.
Thurber's comic hero, a type that came to be known as Thurber Man, is a squinty, skewed kind of guy; a digression blinking at a wife, a boss, an errand that wants him straight, and on time. He knows human nature, but not what can possibly be done about it. He is contemporary to the more dominant species, 
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