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AP: My snaking from one enthusiasm to another may be more pythonine than hippopotamic. As for writing enjoyment, most of it comes during research, which for ''The Urban Tree Book'' included rambles with my wife (the illustrator) through parks and leafy streets across the U.S. and in parts of Europe. What could be more blissful?
But writing itself, as I've always maintained, is 'a bumper-to-bumper crawl through hell with an occasional jolt to the next form of anguish.'' (--''The Elements of Authorship''.) With most topics, facing a constellation of choices in every sentence is skull-dentingly difficult enough; but writing about expressiveness and striving to shape those sentences into paradigms of wit and style --- Nerve-nuking! Brains- in-a-blender exasperating! Why do it? Because ''having written '' is so ecstasiating.
* '''BB: While I was wished 'Happy Holidays' so many times over the past two weeks or so that I grew rather bored of the words, I was able to respond with 'Have a clamorously crunk Christmas and a Nirvanic New Year' thanks to your excellent [http://www.freshsuperlatives.com website] - was the website your idea, or your publishers?'''
