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Seuss’s Constraint-Fueled Breakthrough

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David Epstein tells how Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with a 200-word limit and then Green Eggs and Ham with just 50 words, showing how constraints sparked rhythmic experimentation and reshaped children’s literature.

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