>>
>>Apparently she forgot where Marx and Engels lived and worked most of
>>their lives. I sat in Marx's chair at the old Brit Museum, before
>>they tore it up--the B.M., notthechair.
>
>No she doesn't: I don't think it's available in the online version,
>but in the print edition of The Times she "regrets" that Marx wrote
>his books in the British Library...
Restores my faith in the old hag.
>
>The British Museum is still there; it's the Library that has been
>displaced (I never used the old one, but rather like the new one in
>St Pancras).
That's what I meant. The old one is Sir John Soane, isn't it? A great
building, they'd not touch it.
>
>How did you know it was Marx's chair you sat on? (Haven't they been
>renumbered from time to time, and is there a good record of which one
>he used to use?)
>
Well, it was the chair in his regular place. It made my butt very smart.
jks
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