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Other times the publishing world greets a manuscript with a collective shrug — and it takes off.
Narayan, in his memoir, recalled asking Purna if he would be so kind as to "weight the manuscript with a stone and drown it in the Thames".
This is a manuscript with a considerable scholarly "apparatus," including commentary and readings, meant, we are told, for a synagogue.
In what may be a sly wink at "The Da Vinci Code," his latest effort concerns a medieval manuscript with a whiff of heresy, suppressed and possibly destroyed by order of the pope.
Lenaghan showed another manuscript, with a delicately colored image of Philip and his wife, Elizabeth Farnese, who, in 1737, imported Farinelli to Madrid from London, hoping that his singing might help the monarch.
The book had already made the rounds of London publishers, and Narayan had advised his friend to "weight the manuscript with a stone and drown it in the Thames".
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Her plausible argument was that she had outlined the plot ideas, and then edited Mrs. Benson's manuscripts with a thoroughness that sometimes angered the author.
The 14½-pound tome combines two 19th-century design encyclopedias, Auguste Racinet's "L'Ornement Polychrome" and M. Dupont-Auberville's "L'Ornement des Tissus," assembling some 5,000 patterns of fabric, wallpaper and illuminated manuscripts, with a DVD of 5,000 images.
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