[Publib] Brief Review

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There are times when you just cannot wait for a book to  finish to comment 
upon the thing.  I  am reading Wendy Moore’s Knife Man, a biography of 
eighteenth-century  Scottish surgeon and anatomist John Hunter.   
About mid-point in the book it is revealed that Lord  Clive, hero of 
conquests in  India, had  brought home a female zebra from his travels, in hopes of 
mating it to an  ass.  The zebra refused until Clive  had the male painted so as 
to resemble a zebra, whereupon a romance commenced,  with the usual result:  “
She  received him very readily.”   
This explains half the bad marriages since time began. 
Michael McGrorty 
_www.librarydust.com_ (http://www.librarydust.com)  




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