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The Dead Writers Round-Up: 6th January

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  • Fanny Burney died on 1/6/1840. “Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.” (Evelina; Cecilia; Camilla; The Wanderer)
  • Carl Sandburg was born on 1/6/1878. “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.” (Chicago Poems; Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Remembrance Rock; Rootabaga Stories)
  • Kahlil Gibran was born on 1/6/1883. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” (Broken Wings; The Prophet)
  • Alan Watts was born on 1/6/1915. “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” (The Way of Zen; The Joyous Cosmology; The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)
Frances Burney by Edward Francesco Burney, 1782
Carl Sandburg, 1940-1946
A Young Kahlil Gibran
A Young Alan Watts

The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Henrik Ibsen

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  • Name: Henrik Ibsen
  • DOB: 3/20/1828
  • Member Since: 1864
  • Status: Charter Member
  • Important Role: Head of entertainment committee.
  • Hobbies: Exposing hypocrisy; modernizing theatre; shocking bourgeois sensibilities; landscaping the wild expanse of his beard.
Henrik Ibsen, circa 1864

Henrik Ibsen, circa 1864