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From: New Straits Times
Date: 20000823
Author:Swapan Chakravorty

Swapan Chakravorty
New Straits Times
08-23-2000
The demise of the common reader
Byline: Swapan Chakravorty
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Literary & Books
Column: Text & pretext fortnightly with The Literature Collective

MENELIK II, the emperor of Ethiopia, enjoyed chewing pages from his Bible. He died after ingesting the complete Book of Kings. Charles Lamb confessed to Coleridge that he was rather partial to books which contained traces of buttered muffins. Sir John Franklin, the English explorer, left his guns behind when he disembarked with 129 of his men somewhere in the ...

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