On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:22:04 -0400 Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
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> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:00:07 -0700 "Mark Bennett"
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> > joanna
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> > >The case to be proved is rather the opposite since the only
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> > aristocrat I can think of is Tolstoy
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> > Well, Nabokov started out as an aristocrat. Maybe it's a Russian
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> I guess so. Turgenev, his boyfriend, Bakunin, and
> Kropotkin were all Russian aristocrats.
I meant to write that Bakunin was Turgenev's boyhood friend (although people have speculated about Bakunin's sexuality).
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