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From Anatomy to Atlantis | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. From Anatomy to Atlantis. Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder) was a frighteningly brilliant philosopher, scientist, anatomist, inventor, and professor of medicine at Uppsala University. As an enthusiastic teenage student, he was one of the first to discover the form and function of the lymphatic system. His findings were published in the paper. Rudbeck points out the location of Atlantis (northern Sweden). A method for dating artefacts by soil strata, w...

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The French Revolution | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. In 1834, the philosopher John Stuart Mill discovered that, although he had signed a contract with his publisher to produce a general history of the French revolution, he was actually too busy with other commitments to come up with the promised work. So he proposed to his friend Thomas Carlyle that Carlyle write it instead. Carlyle, struggling to make ends meet, and unwilling to stoop to mere journalism. Carlyle was the epitome of politeness. Mill was beside himself with...

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The million-dollar tidy-up: a prime example of housekeeping | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. The million-dollar tidy-up: a prime example of housekeeping. We tend to think of the ribbon of history being pulled into its pattern by large events: a shot ringing out one Sarajevo morning, a wall rising up one Berlin night. The influence of housekeeping on history. Is a sadly neglected field of study, but perhaps the prime example is a house-clearance in Göttingen. Ueber die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse. Was an instant hit. At the core of Riemann...

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Larkin down the back of a bedside cabinet | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. Larkin down the back of a bedside cabinet. Sometimes a lost manuscript just lurks. For a while. It’s the way of manuscripts. Pesky things. The acclaimed British poet Philip Larkin. Except, a few months later, in June 2002, up turned a red A5 notebook. Containing early drafts of two of Larkin’s published poems and a free-standing quatrain. The book then made its way to a local man, Chris Jackson, who maintained that he had bought it from a friend, after the friend had re...

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I’ll eat my words | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. I’ll eat my words. In the annals of lost manuscripts, possibly far too few have been lost to posterity through devourment. Some say the world might be a better place if authors were more often compelled to perform this operation literally, rather than leaving the activity solely the preserve of bookworms and mice.). An heroic exception is the Danish author Theodore Reinking. In 1644, Theodore wrote a political tract entitled. Dania ad exteros de perfidia Suecorum. We do...

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The Adventure of the Southsea Sorting Office | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. The Adventure of the Southsea Sorting Office. It’s not a. Start to a literary career. The manuscript of your first novel is lost in the post. The Mystery of Cloomber. Isn’t much of a success, either; it languishes in obscurity and isn’t published in. Magazine until 1888. By then, however, people were taking an interest in your work because it really was third time lucky. A Study in Scarlet. And his friend Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first novel,. That ...

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Something sensational to read on the train | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. Something sensational to read on the train. The source of all the confusion in Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play. The Importance of Being Earnest. Is a lost manuscript. Miss Prism’s self-penned three-volume novel. In fact. Despite it being a fictional work, this literary treasure has raised unanswered questions for serious scholars of Wilde. (Oh, fine then, just me.). As a baby, he was found in a handbag in the cloakroom at Victoria Station (the facility for the Brighton Line).

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Articles | Lost Manuscripts | What happens when words disappear

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What happens when words disappear. Dora Diamant’s letters. It’s an image that does not spring readily to mind. Franz Kafka — the tortured Czech-Jewish writer of our imaginations — once harboured an ambition to open a restaurant. In this culinary nirvana, his last lover, Dora Diamant, would be the cook. He would be the waiter. Obviously, this career move never happened, partly because Kafka had laryngeal tuberculosis. It’s a lovely image, though. Imagine strolling out and having the author of. She held on...

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The Seven Pillars of Reading Station | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. The Seven Pillars of Reading Station. You play an outstandingly successful role. As a British liaison officer in the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918, a revolt initiated by Sherif Hussein of Mecca to secure independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and create a single unified Arab state. You serve with the forces of the Emir Feisal. One of the four sons of Sherif Hussein. You develop a strategy that prevents the Turkish forces at Medina. You travel by camel. In France during t...

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In which Page 49 goes missing for 34 years | Lost Manuscripts

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What happens when words disappear. In which Page 49 goes missing for 34 years. What made this piece of fiction such a perennial hit? What made the exploits of Grignr, a barbarian, so relentlessly popular? Was it the wooden characters, the hackneyed plot? No People generally agreed that it was the prose: the prose was spectacularly appalling. The author of this work has a touch of genius for picking the wrong word, an acquaintance with spelling that is sometimes distant, and often dispenses with the gramm...