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Tony Howard's avatar

Curiouser and curiouser... as I'm in the midst of reading about the great Colin Kirkus and his explorations in the Glyders and indeed The Devil's Kitchen and surrounding damp and grassy untempting cliffs, not for the fainthearted!

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Tod Cheney's avatar

Nice rambling as usual . You didn't quite convince me I need to read Kummer's Quartic Circle though. Not yet anyway.

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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Still in print 100 years after he wrote it, that's pretty good. Must be a really interesting curved sirface. The collecting society ALCS tried to send me £12 in secondary rights on the book but I had to admit he wasn't me.

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Ann Kennedy Smith's avatar

Gosh, you had me fooled for a minute there, Ronald! What a great story, and even with such a tragic ending, you give us the flavour of an adventurous Cambridge scholar who found happiness in the mountains.

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