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From: The Spectator
Date: 19970503
Author:Chadwick, Charles; Et al; Irwin, Philip; Owen, John; Edelsten, David

IN COMPETITION NO. 1980 you were invited to construct from the name of an author and the title of one of their works the name of another author and an imaginary title of one of his or her works.

In this anagrammatic challenge, by `another author' I meant another real author - otherwise the torture would have been mild.

Ever since my childhood delight on discovering that ORCHESTRA and CARTHORSE contained the same letters, I have been enchanted by anagrams. Among the lesserknown masterpieces, I would cite Lewis Carroll's transformation of WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE into WILD AGITATOR! MEANS WELL ...

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