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Prizing Bertrand Russell
On this day in 1970 Bertrand Russell died, aged ninety-seven. Like Henri Bergson before him, Russell won his 1950 Nobel Prize in literature without ever having published any. Not long after returning home from Stockholm, Russell thought he might as well try his hand at the craft, eventually publishing two volumes of short stories -- neither of them close to being prize-winners. |
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