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Re: Famous Writers and Other People who Once Were Technical Writers
Subject:Re: Famous Writers and Other People who Once Were Technical Writers From:Paula Puffer <techwrtr -at- CEI -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 5 May 1997 07:32:42 -0500
At 01:14 PM 5/4/97 +0300, you wrote:
>Buck & Tilly Buchanan wrote:
>>
>> > >Can we start a new thread called "Famous Writers and Other >People
who Once Were Technical Writers"?
>
>How far back in history shall we go?
>
>Maybe to the cuneiform cutting
>scribe, counting bushels of flax and
>captured warriors, who then turned to literature and wrote the Epic of
>Gilgamesh?
anyone mentioned Chaucer yet?? (I haven't been paying close attention to
this thread sorry)
Paula
>
>
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>Lionel A. Wolberger
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