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#124714 03/06/04 10:25 PM
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Here's fun URL giving quotes by artists about critics:
Dear Faldage: I think Brendan Behan cribbed on George Jean
Nathan.
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:l8O5zpNUxFQJ:detroitmusic.com/outsight/critics.php+George+Jean+Nathan+critics+eunuchs&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


#124715 03/06/04 11:55 PM
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A lot of them read like the definition of fox-hunting by Oscar Wilde:

"The inedible pursued by the unspeakable".


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And Wilde devoted his energies to the inedible and unspeakable.


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You've clearly outlived your best period, Bill!


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Dear Capfka: I regret that I find myself unable
to believe that the best is about to become.


#124719 03/08/04 12:36 PM
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So Pope was wrong, then?
"Man never is, but always to be blessed."


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I thought Pope was infallible on matters of religion.


#124721 03/08/04 03:22 PM
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>>matters of religion<<

Nope. Pope is infallible *only in matters of faith and morals. "Religion" is too broad.


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I just hope he was infallibel when crossing voer to the hotel on Eel Pie Island - if not, he'd have got very damp.



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Ain't Google wonderful?
Eel Pie Island is familiar ground to those who frequent the River Thames in the neighbourhood of Twickenham. The island, on which is an inn, is situated just above the famous Twickenham Ferry, and rising behind is seen St. Mary's Church, where is Warburton's monument to Pope, and where Kitty Clive lies buried. Twickenham once belonged to Sir Francis Bacon, and its literary associations are innumerable. Pope lived for nearly thirty years at Twickenham, and died there, a short distance above Eel Pie Island. But the poet's home was destroyed early in the present century, and his much-talked-of grotto underwent drastic alterations. Orleans House, and Strawberry Hill, Walpole's well-known villa, are not far off.




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