Quite a while ago, Jon blogged about finding the word 'born' on his birthday page 274, no less 88 letters into the line (born in 1988.) To be honest, I sort of laughed and thought, OK he's stretching it a bit, but it sort of works . . . I suppose.
But now I can't laugh anymore! because I happened upon myself in Ulysses (wrong book, I know.) On page 225 (my birthday, though it's Americanized 2/25 rather than 25/2) Joyce included my namesake, Jenny Lind the Swedish Nightingale (line 699.)
ha, i did stretch it a bit, but... it works. Somewhat. What would be even wilder is if you yourself are Swedish?
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