March 2008
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Irony →
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, was shot down by one of his fans, Horst Rippert, during World War II.“If I had known it was Saint-Exupéry I would never have shot him down,” said Mr Rippert.
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Artist Statements
Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine any writing worse than artist statements.
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F is for Fake
So, roughly within the last couple of weeks, it’s been revealed that: A Columbia Professor is a plagiarist. A Bush Administration columnist is a plagiarist. A famous Holocaust Memoir is a fake. And so is a new set to be a best-seller Gang Memoir. I suppose it’s a distressing day for culture, when more and more of our writers and their works are revealed to be hoaxes and frauds. While...
