Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 1:08 |
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> > I thought that was Victor Hugo, for _Les Misérables_. Or did I misremember?
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> The story is told of Victor Hugo, but also of George Bernard Shaw.
> So I left it anonymous.
Didn't know of that one. Thanks for the info. I remember that of some
British childrens' 1001 facts book or suchlike, read back in elementary
school...I suppose it wasn't necessarily too accurate!
Yoon Ha Lee