6.0679 Qs: Lit. Anecdotes; Avon; Antiq. Books; Water (4/64)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 28 Apr 1993 18:20:46 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0679. Wednesday, 28 Apr 1993.


(1) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 21:01:54 EDT (27 lines)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: author, author

(2) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 14:33:30 -0700 (PDT) (12 lines)
From: "Joseph B. Monda" <monda@seattleu.edu>
Subject: question

(3) Date: 24 Apr 1993 14:29:56 -0600 (CST) (19 lines)
From: FRAE141@UTXVMS.BITNET
Subject: Locating antiquarian books directory (France)

(4) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 93 00:44:28 IST (6 lines)
From: MZIERAF@HAIFAUVM

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 21:01:54 EDT
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: author, author

I need help with finding the sources for two literary anecdotes.
Should anyone be able to suggest where I might look, I'd be very
grateful. Forgive me if I have confused details, but both of these
are dredged from the depths of unreliable memory, and neither author
is remotely related to my research.

The first is a remark made by Jack London in reply to a socialite, who
at a penthouse party asked him if, now that he was wealthy, would he
not be moving in better circles? He replied that he would prefer to
remain in the basement, prying at the foundations with his crowbar.

The second occurs, I think, in an exchange between T.S. Eliot and Ezra
Pound, in which one says to the other, you make noise at the front of
the shop while I go round back and steal the goods.

You can see that I'm up to no good and need to make my mischief
respectable.

Thanks.


Willard McCarty

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 14:33:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joseph B. Monda" <monda@seattleu.edu>
Subject: question

Who first named Shakespeare the "Bard of Avon"?
Joseph B. Monda email: monda@sumax.seattleu.edu
smail: English Department Seattle University
Seattle WA 98122 (206) 296-5425




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Date: 24 Apr 1993 14:29:56 -0600 (CST)
From: FRAE141@UTXVMS.BITNET
Subject: Locating antiquarian books directory (France)

Help, please! I am trying to track down a copy of an up-to-date
directory of antiquarian (and second-hand) bookshops in France. I know
that S.L.A.M. (Societe des libraires anciens-modernes) puts out one
(annually?), listing members of SLAM, and I would be interested in
that, or anything else (hopefully something more comprehensive).
Please reply to me privately. A thousand thanks in advance.

(Posted to: Ficino, Humanist, Balzac, ExLibris, C18-L)

--Bob Dawson
French-Italian, University of Texas, Austin 78712-1197
Tel.: (512) 471-5531; Fax: 471-8492
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 93 00:44:28 IST
From: MZIERAF@HAIFAUVM

Hi, Would anyone in HUMANIST be able to direct a student here, in Israel, to
information about water systems and problems in Iran? Thanks.