SHOOT AT AN ANGLE
During the 1920’s property boom in Florida, the Mizner brothers ran an “antiquing” factory at which pieces of furniture, timber, tatuary, and other items were treated to give the impression of venerable age. Showing friends around the factory, Wilson Mizner handed them air rifles and offered to let them take part in inflicting the ravages of time upon a too-new dining-room suite. “Don’t shoot straight at it,” he instructed. “Remember a worm always charges at a piece of furniture from an angle.” From Little Book of Anecdotes, edited by Clifton Fadiman, pg. 404
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