Re: OT: Emperors

Costentin Cornomorus wrote at 2003-12-13 18:50:55 (-0800)
 > --- Tim May <butsuri@...>
 > wrote:
 >
 > > Dammit, Tristan, you beat me to it.  And I was
 > > reading about Norton
 > > _right now_ when the mail came in.
 >
 > You are? A book or webpage? I found a biography
 > of HM once ("Norton I" was the entire title, I
 > believe) - very enjoyable read and an entirely
 > interesting character.
 >

I was.  A comic book[1] (part of a collected volume[2] I just bought
my brother for Christmas, and was rereading) and a text-file
annotation upon it[3].  Although the annotation itself contains some
information about Norton, it would be largely incomprehensible to
someone unacquainted with the work to which it refers; however, the
appendix (scroll down) consists of two of Norton's obituaries printed
in the American press in 1880.


[1] _The Sandman_ #31, "Three Septembers and a January", Neil Gaiman &
        Shawn McManus
[2] _Fables & Reflections_
[3] ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/people/wald/sandman/sandman.31

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