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nospam111

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:48 pm
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26th Annual Oxford Seminar
http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/international/083004oxford.asp

First ed for sale:
http://www.cheffins.co.uk/version2/fineart/catalogues/2004/040707bk/040707bk.txt

Waugh:
http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Obituaries.htm

Top-earning dead celebrities of 2003:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/forbes/P64869.asp#3

Sarehole Mill tour:
http://www.sccs.freeuk.com/diary.html

Tolkien in Birmingham and beyond:
http://creativewriting.britishcouncil.org/courses/?p=918

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:48 am
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Andrew Wells <nospam RemoveThis @hrothgar.force9.co.uk> wrote:

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 > Waugh:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Obituaries.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Obituaries.htm</font</a>>

Finally had a chance to look at this website.
It has an hilarious quote from Auberon Waugh:

"After five days of struggle I give up the attempt to review J.R.R.
Tolkien's The Silmarillion for the Evening Standard. I, who have
ploughed through much of Alain Robbe-Grillet and most of Proust, who
have read all the bye-laws governing attendance at Taunton
swimming-baths and can recite by heart the addresses of all the Special
Clinics in the Greater London area, I must admit defeat. The book is
completely unreadable. ... I find it hard to believe that J.R.R. Tolkien
ever wrote this rubbish. He will be remembered for the important
discovery that "Wales" is the plural of "Waugh"." (21st September 1977)

Thanks for that, Andrew.

Christopher

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:50 pm
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"Christopher Kreuzer" <spamgard.DeleteThis@blueyonder.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
news:A70Ic.545$yz5.6203519@news-text.cableinet.net...

[snip]

  > > Waugh:
<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Obituaries.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Obituaries.htm</font</a>>
 >
 > Finally had a chance to look at this website.
 > It has an hilarious quote from Auberon Waugh:
 >
 > "After five days of struggle I give up the attempt to review J.R.R.
 > Tolkien's The Silmarillion for the Evening Standard. I, who have
 > ploughed through much of Alain Robbe-Grillet and most of Proust, who
 > have read all the bye-laws governing attendance at Taunton
 > swimming-baths and can recite by heart the addresses of all the Special
 > Clinics in the Greater London area, I must admit defeat. The book is
 > completely unreadable. ... I find it hard to believe that J.R.R. Tolkien
 > ever wrote this rubbish. He will be remembered for the important
 > discovery that "Wales" is the plural of "Waugh"." (21st September 1977)

The Evelkyn Waugh website was also interesting for the inights it gave into
the inbred, smug imbecility of the traditional British upper class. Of
course, that was not the intention of the man maintauning the site; he
clearly fawns upon Evelyn Waugh, Lord Longford and the rest of the peope
depicted there.

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:34 pm
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:48:32 GMT, "Christopher Kreuzer"
<spamgard.DeleteThis@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

 >Andrew Wells <nospam.DeleteThis@hrothgar.force9.co.uk> wrote:
 >
 ><snip>
 >
  >> Waugh:
<font color=green>  >> <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Obituaries.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Obituaries.htm</font</a>>
 >
 >Finally had a chance to look at this website.
 >It has an hilarious quote from Auberon Waugh:
 >
 >"After five days of struggle I give up the attempt to review J.R.R.
 >Tolkien's The Silmarillion for the Evening Standard. I, who have
 >ploughed through much of Alain Robbe-Grillet and most of Proust, who
 >have read all the bye-laws governing attendance at Taunton
 >swimming-baths and can recite by heart the addresses of all the Special
 >Clinics in the Greater London area, I must admit defeat. The book is
 >completely unreadable. ... I find it hard to believe that J.R.R. Tolkien
 >ever wrote this rubbish. He will be remembered for the important
 >discovery that "Wales" is the plural of "Waugh"." (21st September 1977)

A friend of mine (a proper, published writer) once interviewed Auberon
Waugh for a magazine. The article which she wrote was entitled
"Murdering Mr Waugh" and was inspired by the desire to kill him which
overcame her 10 minutes into the interview. It was hilarious.
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