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22 July, 2010
Posted in: Reading etc.

This from the book I am reading:

“[Radical publisher of Paine’s “The Rights of Man”] Rickman had loudly advertised his radical affiliations and literary affections by baptising one of his children as Paine and calling the others Washington, Franklin, Rousseau, Petrarch and Volney.”

I mean, really, I have seen nothing in the Irish Times to rival this one. I hope that they were all boys.

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  1. Jordana says

    25 July, 2010 at 23:35

    Oh Anne, I do so love catching up on your blog. You always make me snort with laughter. (I try to catch up on your blog when no one else is around, for this reason.)

  2. belgianwaffle says

    26 July, 2010 at 22:23

    Thank you Jordana, you are kind. I do feel sorry for poor little Volney, that’s the worst of the lot. Sounds too much like vole.

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