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Your support makes all the difference.1 What did Childe Roland do to his lips at the end of the poem?
2 Name the Bix Beiderbecke biopic that starred, rather improbably, Kirk Douglas.
3 Who was conjured up by The Witches of Eastwick?
4 "Oh hark, O hear! how thin and clear, / And thinner, clearer, farther going!" - What?
5 Which celebrated sailor made his first appearance in The Happy Return?
6 Which American writer entitled her autobiography The View from the Ground?
ANSWERS:
1 "He put the slughorn to his lips and blew" - the penultimate line of Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came". 2 "Young Man with a Horn" (Michael Curtiz, 1950 - in Britain entitled "Young Man of Music", for reasons it's probably better not to speculate about).3 Darryl Van Horne, the "horny little devil" in the novel by John Updike and the 1987 film. 4 "O sweet and far from cliff and scar / The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!" (Tennyson, "The Princess"). 5 Horatio Hornblower, hero of the novels by C S Forester. 6 Martha Gellhorn.
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