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Old 12-30-2008, 11:49 AM   #113
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
There is a radio show on the French national radio called "Des Papous dans la tête", it's dedicated to literary games and creations... One of the games is "blind literary diagnostics", where someone selects a portion of text from the work of a known writer, and 4 of the collaborators (they are writers and knowledgeable people themselves) try to guess who the writer is (or at least the period of writing, the style, whether it's a translation or not...).

They fail quite a lot, even when the person that selected the text gives three possible names to choose from.

I'm not surprised an editor does not recognize at first sight the first chapter of "Pride and Prejudice".
off topic, but i LOVE "Des Papous dans la tête" !! now that i think of it, i haven't listened to it in a long time. now that i have a working radio again i must get back to it.
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