Quote from Niles in Beloved Infidel
Frasier: "Though summer at the lake seems but a vapid, vacuous experience, it is a necessary tonic for my troubled youth..." Niles, how old were you when you wrote this? Niles: Almost nine. Which explains the redundancy, "vapid" and "vacuous." By ten, my writing had gotten considerably tighter. Frasier: Among other things.