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The Gentleman Who Was Thursday, Emily A. Hartigan

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When Marie Failinger and I began to play with metaphors as we talked about the scroll to honor Tom Shaffer, we did consider and discard some. From that heap of castoffs, I want to begin big and tell you the clearest discard, the biggest miss: Tom as a peach of a man. The positive side of the image is roundness as an indicator of wholeness, of even feminine circularity, of integrity. The down side of roundness need not be spelled out in detail (and we certainly do not want to suggest fuzziness). . . but there is that one lingering …