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- From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
- Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:51:23 GMT
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- dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
- >enpnjat@gdr.bath.ac.uk (N J A Thorne) writes:
- >| Can anyone recommend to me a good (and accurate)
- >| source of "famous last words" quotes? Is there
- >| such a thing as a book on the subject??
-
- >Since everybody else seems to be ignoring this request, and posting
- >their favorites...
-
- Well, I'm not going to ignore the request. I suggest "Panati's Extraordinary
- Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody" Charles Panati, ISBN
- 0-06-055181-X (or 0-06-096279-8 for the paperback). Harper and Row, New
- York. It's the only book I've seen with a good collection of "famous last
- words". Inspite of the good concept, it was actually a disappointing book -
- not as good as his other book "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things".
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