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Rather than shift his company, a storyteller ought to keep shifting his stories. Telling a joke or anecdote well is an art. They say of Lincoln that he . . . was a master of the storytelling art; and when told by a master, even a dull joke may be irresistible. . . . [Lincoln's] countenance and all his features seemed to take part in the performance. As he neared the pith or point of the joke or story, every vestige of seriousness disappeared from his face. His little gray eyes sparkled ... his frame quivered with sup- pressed excitement (see Abraham Lincoln, ed. Edward Wagen-knecht, 1947, p. 566). |
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