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[Cmcdonough at aol.com]

In another real-life situation for that, one of the most prolific  
contributors to the first edition of the OED was a murderer confined to an  institution 
for the criminally insane (see 
_http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Insanity-English-Dictionary/dp/006099486X_ 
(http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Insanity-English-Dictionary/dp/006099486X)  -  "The Professor and the Madman: A 
Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The  Oxford English Dictionary")
 
/s/ Craig McDonough
 
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In a message dated 7/18/2007 8:24:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
noel at thesubnet.net writes:

Is it necessary  that good
books by bad (problematic) authors only be secret, guilty  pleasures?
How can we make sense of the seeming dichotomy of a  bad
person producing valuable material
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Of course,  having good people on the panel helped a  lot.

-Noel







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