I am thinking how many american presidents and writers from more than hundred years ago I can recall without looking them up in wikipedia.org:
Washington (must have been the first one, no?) Lincoln (the war of northern aggression, I suppose)
yes, that's it, I'm affraid...
now writers:
yes, first comes Gone with the wind -- Mitchell and the opposite view -- uncle tom's cabin, Stowe Then the one about a whale -- Melvill, I think Oh, and there goes O'Henry -- I just love him yes, and the guy with alaska stories -- Jack London and... oops, can't recall anything else at the moment...
so, it's 5-2 in favour of writers -- you must be right!
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Date: 2004-11-04 02:35 pm (UTC)I am thinking how many american presidents and writers from more than hundred years ago I can recall without looking them up in wikipedia.org:
Washington (must have been the first one, no?)
Lincoln (the war of northern aggression, I suppose)
yes, that's it, I'm affraid...
now writers:
yes, first comes Gone with the wind -- Mitchell
and the opposite view -- uncle tom's cabin, Stowe
Then the one about a whale -- Melvill, I think
Oh, and there goes O'Henry -- I just love him
yes, and the guy with alaska stories -- Jack London
and... oops, can't recall anything else at the moment...
so, it's 5-2 in favour of writers -- you must be right!