OT: _Fifth Business_ (was Re: Python Origins)

Michael Hudson mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Dec 7 05:09:46 EST 2000


aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:

> In article <5hGX5.68$E3.1197 at uchinews>,
> Ben Wolfson <wolfson at midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >In article <90n1b0$4jr$1 at panix3.panix.com>, Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>What's _Fifth Business_?  (I did a quick search on Google and Amazon and
> >>didn't find anything related to you.)
> >
> >_Fifth Business_ is the first book in the Deptford trilogy by Robertson
> >Davies, a Canadian and a man with a very impressive beard (the other
> >books being _Manticore_ and _World of Wonders_).
> 
> <confused look>  But what does that have to do with Andrew?

http://www.amk.ca/davies/

maybe?

No, I'd never heard of him either.

Cheers,
M.

PS: I'd forgotten how one of c.l.p's anti-flame measures was to take
an even slightly inflammatory subject and start talking about
something else.  It's nice to be reminded occasionally :-)

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