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1. red_tr+t8[view] [source] 2024-11-28 11:07:09
>>bertma+(OP)
Funny typo in the subtitle.

> Ed Simon on What Sven Birkerts Got Right in “The Guttenberg Elegies"

The book is called "The Gutenberg Elegies". Gutenberg was the inventor of the printing press. Guttenberg[1] is a german politician who became famous for plagiarizing in his PhD thesis.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg

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2. tomgp+kd[view] [source] 2024-11-28 12:12:47
>>red_tr+t8
For me Guttenberg is an actor famous for Police Academy, Short Circuit, and Three Men And A Baby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Guttenberg
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3. rpeden+7r[view] [source] 2024-11-28 14:31:19
>>tomgp+kd
His role in The Day After is the one that always stands out in my mind.
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