When told he was about to die today in 1635, the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega said, 'All right, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.'
I'm made of much sterner stuff. I don't need to wait for my death bed to shout from the rooftops - 'I don't like semolina!'
Gutsy cutting edge or what?
In other news ...
Today in 1987, a Chinese girl who had been brought up by a family of pigs returned to normal life after three years training.
How can anybody who has read Animal Farm be surprised by this?
