Cryptoquote Spoiler – 05/23/15

American writer Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Four be the things I’d been better without:  love, curiosity, freckles, doubt.”   —   Dorothy Parker

Веснушки (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(Both; too poetic, and too lazy . . . for my taste.  Too poetic because I thought there was some kind of mis-print in the beginning of the cryptoquote.  People haven’t spoken this way since Elizabethan times.  Too lazy because love, curiosity and doubt are essential for growth.  Sure, all can cause a certain amount of pain.  But, hey!  No pain, no gain.  Right?  Even freckles!  They help you to develop a kind of thicker skin.  And, they generally fade as you get older anyway.  The line may rhyme, but it just doesn’t resonate.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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