Modesty On a lighter note than usual, I just wa…
Modesty
On a lighter note than usual, I just want to remark on how clever I am. After answering the questions on the Nightwaves website (see link on bottom right), I was impressed to find that I got all ten correct, thus giving me the chance of winning Patricia Duncker�s new novel The Deadly Spaces Between. I�ve not read any of her work, but as it�s based on a novella by Herman Melville (that�s half a clue to one of the answers in the quiz) I am less inclined to pass it by. His story Bartleby, the Scrivener, is one those that keep coming back to demand re-reading.
I have done this quiz each month since I first saw it. And I�ve always got 10 out of 10 (usually after crafty visits to Google) but have never won a prize. However, I did once give the answers to a culturally impoverished friend, who promptly won a fuck-off art book worth �30. The words �loser� and �born� spring to mind.
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