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From: Douglas Rothschild, INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
To: , GMSutherland
here's another one.
have you any idea who is doing this? maybe more people should?
Copyright 1998 Telegraph Group Limited
The Daily Telegraph
July 15, 1998, Wednesday
SECTION: PETERBOROUGH; Pg. 25
LENGTH: 200 words
HEADLINE: Words fail Faber after hoax calls
BYLINE: EDITED BY SIMON DAVIS
BODY:
MATTHEW Evans, chairman of Faber & Faber, is caught up in a baffling
mystery. For his arty publishing firm has been
receiving a series of strange phone calls from a man pretending to be Tom
Paulin, the Oxford don, poet and biographer.
Having ensured that the calls are not from the real Paulin, the affair has
caused much scratching of heads. Apart from anything
else, why would anyone want to pretend to be Tom Paulin? "He comes on
the line and says, 'My name is Tom Paulin and I am
leaving Faber to go to Penguin'," Matthew Evans tells me. "I just don't have
any theories as to why somebody would want to
do that. "I suppose Paulin has become more prominent because of his
biography of Hazlitt. But this man has called several
times, with exactly the same message. Like any part of the media,
publishing attracts some nutters - but this is inexplicable.
"There is," Evans adds sepulchrally, "a strong suspicion that it is the same
man who once rang us pretending to be Seamus
Heaney. Heaney had just won the Nobel prize and this man rang to say
that he was Heaney, he was stuck in Greece and could
we forward him some money. But we knew what the real Heaney
sounded like - so we didn't."
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