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enough silence around one when
one writes, why even night is not
night enough.
Even the considerably more cheerful
Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as
Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced
in his private studio, the walls
lined with sketches and drawings, in a
bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California,
house. Geisel was a much more
quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest.
He rarely ventured out in public
to meet his young readership, fretting
that kids would expect a merry, outspoken,
Cat in the Hat–like figure, and
would be disappointed with his reserved
personality. “In mass, [children]
terrify me,” he admitted.