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Ian Nebuchadnezzar Watson's avatar

This is invaluable knowledge and should be inscribed on the next interstellar probe like scrimshaw.

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Gareth Rees's avatar

This is a very impressive find! How did you do it? Did you come across it by chance or did you look for it deliberately using searchable corpora? My best effort in this line is locating the "fakir in a box" from "Aurora Leigh". https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/17081

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Adam Roberts's avatar

That's amazing on the boxed Fakir! To answer your question, I'm rereading Sordello, came across the ruby ref, wondered: did some surreptitious goggling in a meeting at work, pretending to be reading meeting paperwork on my laptop, after 45 minutes of false hits narrowed my search parameters & hit this. I wrote the substack after the end of my 4-5pm meeting & before my 6-7pm meeting today.

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