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Old 30-Oct-2009, 13:22
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Originally Posted by Eric View Post
What about the Swede (aka the deliberately misleading "Scots poet") in the Tam O'Shanter and long proofed raincoat. We've talked about him quite a lot here. Here he is playing the guitar:

That's Strindberg. He's got a funny mouth, hasn't he? He always looks as though he's sucking on an invisible straw.

By the way, I recognised Elias Canetti because I once read an article about how Iris Murdoch had a weird master-slave kind of relationship with him. He sounded like a kooky guy, so I remembered him.

The Gide book about the Arab boys is The Immoralist. (That makes two of your Nobel prizewinners I've read). But why scissors?
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