"It's the birthday of newspaper columnist Don Marquis,
born in Walnut, Illinois (1878), who created the characters Archy the
cockroach and Mehitabel the alley cat. Archy was a former free verse
poet who "sees life from the underside now." He wasn't able to reach the
shift key so everything he wrote was in lower case. And Mehitabel was
an alley cat with questionable morals who insisted that she was
Cleopatra in one of her former lives.
Marquis was a champion of the underdog and not a fan of pretension.
His columns were humorous, but had political undertones. His character
Archy said once, "a louse i used to know told me that millionaires and
bums tasted about alike to him." And, "what is all this mystery about
the sphinx that has troubled so many illustrious men no doubt the very
same thoughts she thinks are thought every day by some obscure hen."
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Oh Ha! good one Michelle!
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