There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. (L. Sprague de Camp)

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

L. Sprague de Camp

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