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Faulty Sibyl
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Part of the title of this book is taken from Alexander Pope's
lines on the muse who inspired Colley Cibber, the King of the
Dunces in The Dunciad. This slip-shod creature, down-at-heel and
sluttish, "led his steps along,/ In lofty madness meditating song,/
Her tresses staring from poetic dreams". The choice of such a title
is, Greer's Prologue tells us, "provocative and deliberately so";
women poets before 1900 were, for the most part, slip-shod. There
were reasons for this, about which Greer...
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Greer tops his own U.S. javelin mark, wins eighth straight title.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ... salt _ OK, a salt mine _is how far he can throw a javelin. Thursday night it was far enough that Greer was doing the winner's news conference while two rounds of throws remained in the competition at the U.S. Track and Field Championships. I just quit easily ...
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The Chicago Tribune Philip Hersh Olympic Sports column: Greer breaks javelin record.(Column)
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; ... salt -- OK, a salt mine -- is how far he can throw a javelin. Thursday night it was far enough that Greer was doing the winner's news conference while two rounds of throws remained in the competition at the U.S. Track and Field Championships. I just quit easily ...
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