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Furtive autobiography: the Peterborough journalism of Robertson Davies.(Critical essay)(Biography)

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From: Queen's Quarterly
Date: 20070322
Author:Fulford, Robert 

 
  Many things that I would not want to tell anyone, I tell the public; 
  and for my most secret knowledge and thoughts I send my most faithful 
  friends to a bookseller's shop. 
  MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

ON a Dominion Day long ago, CBC radio visited Orillia to collect opinions from people who had once known its most famous citizen, Stephen Leacock. One was a taxi driver who, when asked if he liked Leacock, replied, "No, I don't like him because he didn't like us." Robertson Davies, listening to this, wondered why it was considered necessary for Leacock to like the people of ...

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