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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000902
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Who?
Who is this ?
What?
What work of his uses one of these as a centrepoint?
Where?
Where is this (more a discussion forum than a place to tie up a horse)?
Answers 19 August
Who? Thomas Gray, the poet.
What? Horace Walpole's cat Selima drowned while trying to catch a goldfish from this tub. Gray wrote a poem about it, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat".
Where? Eton College, seen from a distance. Gray wrote "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College".
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