ten-twenty-thirty's

Updated: July 25, 2026

It is a bloodhound when it comes to detecting the false from the true. Take that little sketch, 'Trapped, you sent me out to see last week. A more sophisticated audience might have mistaken its brittle epigrammatic quality for brilliancy and its flippancy for cleverness. But not your ten-twenty-thirty's. In real life a husband doesn't psychanalyze his wife's lover. He horsewhips him.

Fannie Hurst - Star-Dust