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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The angel would eat too much gingerbread - Emerson cracks a joke
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Somewhere on Wuthering Expectations, although heck if I can remember where, I included Ralph Waldo Emerson in a list of writers I considered...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
George Eliot, barrel of laughs - you couldn't tell the monkey from the mounseers
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How many great writers lack a sense of humor? Very few, I think. I'd pick out Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Mann, let's see, Yukio Mis...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Stendhal and his jokes
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"This Minister, despite his frivolous manner and his brilliant remarks, did not possess a soul à la française ; he was not able to forg...
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