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Subject:Request for new thread (was Re: Salutations!) From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:47:09 -0400
AlumsHubby -at- AOL -dot- COM wrote:
>Can we start a new thread called "Famous Writers and Other >People who Once Were Technical Writers"?
If so, I suggest you start with William Blake, who illustrated a
Wedgewood catalogue when things were slack. That should qualify him, if
not as a technical writer, then at least as an artist doing marcom.
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