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Date Posted: 02:12:43 10/15/03 Wed
Author: rktekt
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Subject: Re: GG's Weird and Wacky Question of the Day...
In reply to: GG 's message, "GG's Weird and Wacky Question of the Day..." on 09:34:44 10/14/03 Tue

Sorry to pick nits (especially when it comes to my own sister) but to my knowledge, neither Mary nor Christ were authors.

So I would have to go with John Lennon.

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[> Robert Tressell -- John, 21:43:33 10/15/03 Wed (81.131.142.78)

His daughter found the original manuscript for 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' in a box under his bed, after he had died, read it and was astounded that her father had done this and got it published - and it has become a classic. I've often wondered if there was more of his stuff, in a box in an attic somewhere.

John Kennedy Toole wrote A Confedaracy of Dunces - brilliant title for an acerbice satire, sadly it is his only work to my knowledge - it would be nice to belevie that an unknown manuscript appears at some time.

Sappho - Only fragments of this talented romantic Roman poet remains - surely there must be more lying in a cave, in some large amphorae somewhere.

Herodotus - His Histories have taught us many of what we understand about the roman Empore in its pomp - but as with many Roman writeres - there are many gaps where his writing have become lost!

I could go on.....

I still have nightmares about the fire that destroyed the great Alexandrian library and shudder at the loss of so many one-off manuscrips - I am sure that it set back the development of contemporary civilisation a 1000 years, the Renaissance should have happened about 50 years after the falll of the Roman Empire.

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