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stike · July 2009

Let's play "connect the famous people"

Walt Whitman to the Marquis de Lafayette

Fidel · July 2009

When Whitman was but a wee lad aged five years, he had an encounter with Lafayette at a construction site in Brooklyn that influenced Whitman throughout his life, as evidenced in Whitman's "My First Reading—Lafayette" in Specimen Days (1882).

Now you connect Hermon Atkins MacNeil to Jesse James.

Fidel · July 2009

My favorite lunchbox was the one with graphic depictions from Donatien Alphonse François novels.

stike · July 2009

i used to just carry a book of Dore' engravings....

Fidel · July 2009

I had you pegged for more of a Robert Mapplethorpe fanboy. I can see you walking around campus with your mock "genie in a bottle" sculpture.

stike · July 2009

did they meet?

both worked for the pony express? that can't be it. kinda thin

mad max beyond eggdome · July 2009

i'm betting you're both fans of the famous 'gunfighter' emerson though. . .

stike · July 2009

bah...

i was going for folks that met, or at least crossed in a moment in time. viz: Teddy Roosevelt > Abraham Lincoln (crossing paths at a moment in history)

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