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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
>
>
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