Re: So it is true...


Des Small wrote:
> "Seán O'Leathlóbhair" <jwlawler@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Des Small wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > True enough. And I'm still trying to figure out how to bludgeon
> > > BibTeX into giving anywhere near adequate information. (The Open
> > > University managed to claim in my course materials that the Communist
> > > Manifesto was published in the '90s by Penguin.)
> > >
> > > Des
> > > gets to use footnotes this year, wuhoo!
> >
> > So who did publish it then? Or do you mean the year was wrong, 1980s,
> > this century?
>
> An English edition was certainly published by Penguin this century;
> the original date of publication was 1848, and anyone familiar with
> C19 history will realise that that is important.
>
> Des
> is not obsessively chronohermeneutic, but still...

I must have slept through too many history lessons, probably tired by
all the physics. I'll go off and check what the heck this Communist
Manifesto is and why people get so excited about it. Is it a good
read? Please don't tell me the ending.

--
Seán O'Leathlóbhair

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