Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
7191
AUTHOR:
James Merrill
QUOTATION:
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.
ATTRIBUTION:
On deriving material for three volumes of poetry from Ouija-board sessions with a friend, quoted in George Plimpton ed Writers at Work Viking 84
