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Thread #66580   Message #1107385
Posted By: Peter T.
02-Feb-04 - 12:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Books, books, wonderful books
Subject: RE: BS: Books, books, wonderful books
Yes, of course. One remembers the anecdotes about Aldous Huxley, who carried around one of the India paper volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edition) with him, so as to cover all the rest of knowledge. It was said that you could figure out which volume he had because he would always steer the dinner table conversation to St. Teresa, Terminal diseases, Terror, Terrapins, etc. or Oats, Annie Oakley, Oak trees, Oakum, etc.

yours,

Peter T.