. Some speculate that he had begun to find it sinful, and that Konstantinovsky urged him to burn part two of Dead Souls as well. Bulgakov demanded that they be returned, but he only got them back three years later, at which point he “immediately burned the diaries and resolved never to keep a diary again. Thanks, Betsy. Dead Souls is still with us. Mill proposed that Carlyle produce the work instead; Mill even sent his friend a library of books and other materials concerning the Revolution, and by 1834 Carlyle was working furiously on the project. Euclid could not find a way to predict where these numbers would appear in a sequence. Probably not. Rudbeck’s main obsession, though, was Atlantis. They were married in December 1940. At the core of Riemann’s 1859 paper was an idea — a hypothesis — that seemed to reveal a magical relation between primes and other numbers. In 1939, Brod fled the Nazis to Tel Aviv, bringing with him the rest of Kafka’s manuscripts. (The definite article is missing from the original title. Whether it was real or imaginary, he suffered it. Lowry alleged that he was forced to re-write the entire work in a matter of weeks because of this loss, but a carbon copy existed, supplied by his friend, Martin Case, who had typed the final manuscript then kept the carbon copy which Lowry had chucked in the bin. “They sent up a smoke like the Genie when he got out of the casket on the seashore,” he wrote, “and as it was an exquisite day when I began, and rained very heavily when I finished, I suspect my correspondence of having overcast the face of the Heavens.” His explanation was that he was “shocked by the misuse of private letters of public men” and afterwards began to burn almost all his correspondence. The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. Betty took the thirty-odd volumes into Larkin’s office in the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull University and fed them page by page into a paper shredder—the task took all afternoon. But it didn’t matter, in the end—after a hard start, Carlyle rewrote the book, and when it was published in 1837, Mill wrote a glowing review: “no work of greater genius, either historical or poetical, has been produced in this country for many years.” Except maybe for the first version. Which doesn’t explain why he kept up the burning, so I’m putting my money on the mistress. For more information see: Isis, Vol. Mathematicians hated the fact that they couldn’t predict when the next prime number would pop up. While in Mill's care the manuscript was destroyed, according to Mill by a careless household maid who mistook it for trash and used it as a firelighter. According to J.A.E. One night soon after there was a knock on Carlyle's door. He entered his own, private Inferno. the novel he had begun in Trinidad in 1949, the manuscript of The Shadow’d Livery, his translation of Lazarillo de Tormes, his scripts for the BBC Caribbean Voices, his diaries from his years at Oxford, his journals for The Middle Passage, the manuscripts and typescripts of all the books he had written before moving to Wiltshire, notes and letters from his first trip to India in 1962, most of the letters he had received in the 1950s and ’60s, his own “Letters from London” for the Illustrated Weekly of India, his travel journals from Africa in 1966, and the notebooks and diaries of his early journalism. Nine days later, he died of starvation. Some prove immortal, others duly destroyed, and some others live on in ghost-like forms, re-created, ostensibly imperfectly, by their makers. The New York Times Archives. Albert Finney as Geoffrey Firmin in the 1984 film of Under the Volcano. You could make many millions more simply defrauding the banks before breakfast. Or Stevenson himself did… Or someone did, didn’t they? The author’s wife burned the first draft, it is well known. Finally, the decision of the host prevailed, and calm was restored. But they kept on doing so. But then again, who knows? Mill was beside himself with grief and self-recrimination. Ultramarine tells the story of a young man growing up during a voyage to the Far East — so far, so autobiographical. In 1944, their house burned down, immolating almost everything they owned, including what had become a 1,000-page re-draft of In Ballast to the White Sea, nine years of literary labour, which Lowry never re-wrote again. Supporters, on the other hand, often label it as ingenious. He shared Plato’s belief that this lost civilisation was real. Where did John Warburton keep these 60 irreplaceable manuscripts? For the event, see. But in 1992, when Naipaul and his wife tried to arrange for the archive to be valued, it had disappeared. It also served as a major influence on a number of his contemporaries, including Charles Dickens, who compulsively carried the book around with him,[2] and drew on it while producing A Tale of Two Cities for his crowd scenes in particular. A massive undertaking which draws together a wide variety of sources, Carlyle's history—despite the unusual style in which it is written—is considered to be an authoritative account of the early course of the Revolution. Did any burning at all go on? And of course, manuscripts do burn. She merrily consigned hundreds of pages to the flames before the mathematical members of the university arrived to stop her. Yes, but none of it by Fanny Stevenson. Introduced as heir to his father’s business, the boy was invited to witness a momentous event. While his house was burning down and his manuscripts were being reduced to ashes, Rudbeck stood on the roof of one of the university buildings and shouted fire-fighting instructions at the people of the city below.

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