Subject: Re: the missing plaques
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 13:41:55 GMT
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 05:37:23PM +0000, Paul Kennedy wrote:
> >It was crowded and dusty, and the man who runs it is a bit of a loon
> >who claims to be a descendent of Walt Whitman!
>
> Very naive question: Could/did Walt have kids?
Not naive at all. Answer:
Not any more likely than Sylvia Beach having kids.
As I said, the guy's a bit of a loon. But gentle. And he provides
bunk space for passing writers upstairs. A friend of mine stayed
there once in the early 1980s.
See:
http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/paris/george.html
for a profile of the present owner, who claims he is the illegitimate
great-grandson of Whitman.
--tim
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