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Article #826504Re: Question of the Day: What great English writer...?
From: parnellos.pizza@
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 18:38
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 18:38
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George J. Dance wrote:
> On 2022-07-15 6:51 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 6:50:33 PM UTC, NancyGene wrote:
>>>
>>> > More Hornblower:
>>> >
>>> > ("Beat to Quarters," p.238) "This Spanish way of making a show out
>>> of insanity and greatness was repulsive enough, but could be
>>> paralleled often enough in English history. One of the greatest
>>> writers of the English language, and a dignitary of the Church to
>>> boot, had once been shown in his dotage for a fee."
>>
>>> Still no correct answer?
>>
>>> This is obviously not a swift crowd.
>>
>> I didn't notice the one, but I did correctly guess the one before, Edgar
>> Allan Poe.
> I remember that. There was one in between, though; you probably skipped
> it because there was something nasty about you in the subject line. I
> don't remember the question, but the answer was John Todhunter.
Yes, I'd consider that nothing more than a Nancy Gene troll thread.
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