Light Posting
May 10th, 2007 by WaltSorry posting has been light. I just moved, which is filled with many non-math-related activities such as unpacking, but also many math-related activities, such as wondering where all of your books went. The chaos is almost to an acceptable level, so posting should pick back up.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:07 am
since when unpacking is not math related?
May 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Just came across a website (http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/) which quickly reduced me to tears of laughter.
Guess who wrote this?
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Ah, you do not listen to me, shameless courtesan, harlot. Well, I shall come to get you in this same castle. I shall let the common brutes of the market-place satiate their idle lusts on your sinful body. You shall be the mockery of the unreasoning mob. Your corpse will not have the rites of Christian burial. You will be cast into the field of the Badia with the witches. And when the hour of your agony comes, when, trampled on, transfixed and rent by the blows of the mob, you shall implore aid and succour with the eyes which now so disdainfully regard me, I shall be the evil demon of that supreme hour, I shall come to torture you with memories of me, to gloat in my triumph.
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(Hint: from an early twentieth century bodice ripper, published in Italian in 1909 by somoene, not remembered as a novelist, whose own corpse was in the fullness of time, rent by the blows of a mob.)
ANSWER: http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/musso.html
Compare the utterly bland mention of this book in the author’s wikibio.
May 16th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
That’s awesome. It was rumored about ten years ago that Saddam Hussein had written a novel under a pseudonym, but I don’t know the details.