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Old 08-07-2009, 05:51 AM   #177
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Curious that the "constant reader" moniker is attributed to Stephen King, since that was the name Dorothy Parker used for her New Yorker book review column, long before King's time. And it's entirely possible she lifted it from somewhere, too.
It's not so much attributed, I just remember in many of his books where he comments / narrates to his readership he uses the phrase "you dear constant reader" so now we know where it came from.
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