MYTH #2 Radiocarbon dating has established the date of some organic materials (e.g., some peat deposits) to be well in excess of 50,000 years, thus rendering a recent creation (6 to 10 thousand years ago) impossible. However, it is important to distinguish between radiocarbon years and calendar years.
âThe writer should try to find a publisher that will give the client personal attention and one who is genuinely interested in the writerâs life story as opposed to the project being just another job,â she said. âI try to build a rapport with my authors.â.
). James Thurber is one of Americaâs best known humorists, and âThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyâ is his best known story. The story was first published in 1939 in the New Yorker magazine to great acclaim.It was reprinted in Thurberâs 1942 collection, My World â And Welcome To It and in Readerâs Digest in 1943.hurber used such distortions of speech and reality to effectively depict the absurdities of the human condition. Historical Context War Fantasies âThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyâ was first published in 1939, the year World War II began.