[dba-Tech] OT: Literary Question

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Apr 6 14:29:45 CDT 2012


Ha ha ha... ;-)

Jim

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
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It was for Dostoevsky that the word turgid came into popular use in English.
However, Rand raised it to an art form.

R
 

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
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I love the way he phrased that like he knows the rest of us have actually
read it... as if... ;)

I've tried to read several of his books -- can't do it. Boring as hell.

Susan H.


> Francs and Napoleons, IIRC.
>
>
> In Dostoevsky's The Gambler, what was the currency used? I don't think 
> it was rubles but cannot remember.
>
> --

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