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   Ross Clark to All   
   Anthony Trollope born (24-4-1815)   
   26 Apr 24 23:17:28   
   
   From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Somewhere sometime I picked up a copy of "The Warden", and finally got   
   around to reading it a couple of years ago. That's my only dollop of   
   Trollope. A lot of my reading works that way.   
      
   Crystal quotes a passage from his autobiography in which he ponders the   
   dilemma of wanting to write in a popular, natural sort of English while   
   still obeying the rules of grammar. He concludes that (if I may   
   paraphrase) you have to practise long and hard in order to be natural.   
      
   The autobiography is available online:   
      
   https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5978   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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