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18. This was written in 1906

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 11:28 PM

Feb 2015

about the time Winston got home from being captured by the Boers. I'm reading along thinking to myself 'howinhell does a 30 year old English aristocrat write such effective Yankee dialect and know so much about American politics?' I think Wikipedia has raised my IQ 20% in the last 10 years. There is indeed an American Winston who wrote novels and ran for governor of New Hampshire. I'm well into this one and it's keeping me entertained. I found this on Project Gutenberg so you need a computer to get at it. I doubt it's available anywhere in print form. I have been finding plenty interesting reading at Gutenberg, but I am not a discriminating reader. I will read the back of the mayonnaise jar if that's all that's available.

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