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« Clarification | Main | Aqua Dots -- the Big Lie? » Monday, November 5, 2007Henry James mystery... solved?I thought I would bring my recent attempt to solve (ham-fistedly, to be sure) an enduring literary puzzler to your attention. I hope it entertains you, at least...  Is It a Chamber Pot? By Joshua Glenn Posted Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 Ever since the 1903 publication of Henry James' "The Ambassadors," critics and readers have puzzled over a literary mystery that has come to be known as the Woollett Question. What, everyone from E.M. Forster to David Lodge has wanted to know, is the "little nameless object" manufactured in Woollett, Mass.? The case went cold at some point in the 1960s, but earlier this week it was reopened... and cracked. READ THE REST: http://www.slate.com/id/2177149 RESPONSES: Scott McLemee (Crooked Timber) | John Holbo (The Valve) | Jessa Crispin (Bookslut) | Maud Newton | Ed Champion (Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant) | Sarah Weinman (ex-GalleyCat, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind) | BRIJIT | American Studies | ALSO: Check out this WaPo Book World review vs. this NYT Book Review essay. Oh yeah, and was the shrunken brain rattling around in E.A. Poe's skull really a tumor? Posted by Joshua Glenn at 11:24 AM
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