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When he ran...

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When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

Source: On deadpan comedian Buster Keaton, Comedy's Greatest Era reprinted in Life, Fall 1986.
-- James Agee, (Nov 27 1909-1955), US novelist, poet; He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for A Death in the Family.


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