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Sunday 24 January 2010
Quiz Question (2) Literary Connection
Consider these four men. What fact about their lives connects them?
Giacomo Casanova
Philip Larkin
Mao Tse-Tung
Jorge Luis Borges
I will post the answer in a few days!
Philip Larkin's This Be The Verse will be the subject of a future post
I have obviously asked too hard a question or maybe nobody visits this site! Here's a clue; they were all, at one time or another in their careers, bibliosophs.
Hello Lew. You are right about Golda Meir & Ben Frankin of course. Thanks for not giving the exact answer yet! Do you have a blog? I think I was the first person to look at your (empty) profile. Thanks for visiting.
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I have obviously asked too hard a question or maybe nobody visits this site!
Here's a clue; they were all, at one time or another in their careers, bibliosophs.
You could have included Golda Meir and Ben Franklin! (I knew the Chairman was one, but I had to look up the others!). Lew
Hello Lew. You are right about Golda Meir & Ben Frankin of course. Thanks for not giving the exact answer yet!
Do you have a blog? I think I was the first person to look at your (empty) profile.
Thanks for visiting.
Larkin worked in a library....I guess the others did too.
Bob, you are right they were all librarians at one time or another.
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