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The Jack of Clubs
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What about another list for the modest writers who use only their initials? C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, A.E. Stallings et al. |
Lady Jane Grey wasn't in the original list that RogerBob commented on, though, Gail. Incidentally, do you have any ideas as to what Sir Spring-heel Jack is up to here? (boing boing boing...)
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F. Lee Bailey
C. Wright Mills L. Frank Baum E. Howard Hunt G. Gordon Liddy H. Rider Haggard N. Scott Momaday J. William Fulbright O. My Sainted Aunt! R. Buckminster Fuller T. Coraghessan Boyle W. Somerset Maugham Alan a’ Dale John of Gaunt Ponce de León Charles de Gaulle Lawrence of Arabia Catherine de’ Medici St. Ignatious of Loyola Madame de Pompadour Mary Queen of Scots Eleanor of Aquitaine Simon de Montfort William of Occam Tom o’ Bedlam Helen of Troy Joan of Arc |
U. Take The Fifth?
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Wasteheads weirdomorphs wrongdoers and lone wolves
Hippies groupies Deadheads and freaks dangling in trees Dilettantes mountebanks charlatans and armchair experts Misanthropes troglodytes tortfeasors and paranoid isolatos Adventurers pathfinders survivalists and assorted passersby Protagonists existentialists ideologues and dramatis personæ Necromancers poltergeists clairvoyants and pseudointellectuals Minnesingers costermongers poetasters and wandering minstrels Nativists populists tribalists pocketing the Viking Portable Nietzsche Anarchists iconoclasts hedonists and infantile deviationists to the left Non-student agitators and radical feminist multicultural deconstructionists |
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Now we're getting somewhere! To that let me add: Chain-smoking whiskey drinking blue eyed peaky wearing war torn son of gypsy death . |
J. Paul Getty
J. Edgar Hoover J. Alfred Prufrock J. William Fulbright J. Robbie Robertson J. Ramsay MacDonald J. Robert Oppenheimer |
J Paul Getty
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J Arthur Rank
and perhaps Betjeman's Miss J Hunter Dunn |
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