[dba-Tech] OT: Literary Question

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Fri Apr 6 15:03:39 CDT 2012


You do say some of the funniest things!  :-)
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787


On 4/6/2012 10:14 AM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> It was for Dostoevsky that the word turgid came into popular use in English.
> However, Rand raised it to an art form.
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> R
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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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