It would have been been dictated over the phone, Max, definitely. I think Gibson's Student (that sounds like a breed of monkey) wrote much of our history. Judy, you woke; I slept. 2009/8/9 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> > Quoting David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>: > > > (in the local paper) > > > > KNOWLEDGE of angels, William Blake, songs of inner sense > > and of experience, £3 > > > I love this phrase, inner sense. > Was it dictated over the phone? do you think... > > A student's exam paper is said to have referred to the playwright, > Henry Gibson. > Presumably the student relied on hearsay to the exclusion of sighting the > written name. > > p.s > 'Knowledge of Angels is a medieval philosophical novel by Jill Paton Walsh > which > was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.' > > New to me - does anyone recommend it? > > Max > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au > -- David Bircumshaw "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ You say are poems" - DMeltzer Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk