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[tree_and_leaf]

Someone asked about shipping Captain Flint and Timothy in the Facebook Arthur Ransome group. It went about as well as you would have expected...

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[perennialanna]

Because obviously if you make things illegal, like driving for eye testing purposes and fleeing to tiny northern cities to check into small local under-resourced hospitals, they just don't do them. Didn't Ransome report on Oscar Wilde's trial?

[tree_and_leaf]

Not quite, but possibly even better: Ransome wrote a book on Oscar Wilde in 1912, and was sued for libel by Lord Alfred Douglas (apparently because he thought it would be a way to get back at Robbie Ross). Douglas lost and was bankrupted as a result.

[perennialanna]

Definitely better.

[legionseagle]

But the book got pulped by nervous publishers, alas.

[tree_and_leaf]

Alas. I’d forgotten that bit!

[legionseagle]

I think he did get to reissue the book as an amended second edition, but the whole thing seems to have quite unnerved him.

[tree_and_leaf]

I can see why, but it's a real pity.