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   Scott Dorsey to u502sou@bnhb484.de   
   Re: SF: Book recommendations   
   02 Feb 26 19:27:57   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.misc   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Ignatios Souvatzis   wrote:   
   >There is a piece by James Thurber about a lady he met in his hotel   
   >who complained that Shakespear's Macbeth was printed in the same   
   >format as her beloved - for travel reading - detective stories,   
   >then after reading it criticized it for the improbable murderer.   
   >Questioned, she claimed the natural bad person would have been   
   >ZnpQhss.   
      
   I don't think it would take much to add a butler to the story.  You   
   would expect a palace to have a full staff.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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