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From: asente@decwrl.UUCP (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Platonic love
Message-ID: <4731@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Dec-83 14:31:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 30 14:31:45 1983
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Actually, the model for Bunthorne in "Patience" by Gilbert & Sullivan
is not Oscar Wilde as so many people suppose but James Whistler.  At
the time of Patience Oscar was not quite so <insert appropriate
adjective here> as some of the other aesthetic artists.

	-paul asente
	    ...decwrl!asente