Charles Burton Barber, Girl with Dogs
What makes my crosswords so exceptionally adorable? It’s not their symmetrical features; most crosswords have those. They aren’t rounded or fuzzy—on the contrary, they are geometrically rectilinear and semantically exact. But their babbling delight in language, their wide-eyed, uncomplicated openness to life give them an infantile appeal very unlike the hard-edged affect of their adolescent meme-grubbing, slang-repeating, hipster-referencing competitors.
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