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     So, in considering the role played in postcard cartoons by people who wear glasses, we have found them to be largely slow-moving, slow-thinking characters whose job it is, in the main, to be stunned by the punchline.  Look at this English example.  He clearly is not one of the folks who work at theContinue reading “Astigmatism Stigmatism”

     As we have considered the monocle, the lorgnette, and the pince nez, I suppose we should get around to plain old everyday eyeglasses.  Spectacles, you might say.  Cheaters, as once they were known.      As someone who has worn glasses for, oh, a good twenty years (I know 1963 was a while back, butContinue reading “Rose-Colored?”