James Pethel
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I was shocked this morning when I saw in my newspaper a paragraph announcing his sudden death. I do not say that the shock was very disagreeable. One reads a newspaper for the sake of news. Had I never met James Pethel, belike I should never have heard of him: and my knowledge of his death, coincident with my knowledge that he had existed, would have meant nothing at all to me.
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was the youngest of nine children born to a well-to-do London family. A celebrated drama critic, radio broadcaster, and caricaturist, he is best remembered for his only novel, Zuleika Dobson (1911).
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