Group: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: "bobgrumman@nut-n-but.net"
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Nope, Shakespeare Never Visited Venice, He Just Used His Imagination

On Mar 26, 6:02=A0am, webfilelib wrote:
> On Mar 26, 1:37=A0am, Greg Reynolds wrote:
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> > On Mar 25, 3:15=A0pm, Russell Cruikshank wrote:
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> > > Despite the many candidates proposed as the "true" author
> > > of Shakespeare's works by the loons on this newsgroup,
> > > William Shakespeare of Stratford remains the only candidate
> > > supported by the historical evidence.
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> > And yet Jules Verne regularly dropped 20,000 leagues just for the
> > gonzo journalism.
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> > One time, at the center of the earth, he rubbed sunscreen on Nellie
> > Bly.
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> > Russell, they might be on to you. The number of subscribers didn't
> > crank up when you posted.
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> > =A0 - Gossamer Ingleducker
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> You guys are getting pretty maudlin.
> I've been from Monza to Capri
> and trying to learn about Italy
> by sitting in a british pub
> is like trying to drive a toaster through
> a car wash.- Hide quoted text -
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Learn about it for what purpose? To write a book about it--or a play
set in Italy with two of three bits of local color in it?

The episode you quoted, by the way, is pretty funny. Thanks for that,
at any rate.

--Bob G.