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<DIV>Today is the centenary.</DIV>
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<DIV>Have you ever noticed how odd-sounding is that repeated ref. to “the boy
Curnow” in “Jacob’s Room”? Well, I think it’s a ref. to, or echo of, Boy
Cornwell, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Jutland:</DIV>
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cornwell">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cornwell</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Cornwell is almost Cornwall, and Curnow is the Cornish for Cornwall.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>