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Couldn't resist -- A very curious letter in tomorrow's Washington Post:
Pushkin in the Boondocks?
Monday , July 3, 2000 ; A18
Has anyone noticed the striking facial resemblance between the young rebel
Riley in the Boondocks comic and the great Russian poet Alexander
Sergeyevich Pushkin--who was also of African ancestry?
It's been said that Russians love their poets "young and dead." Pushkin
was killed in a duel when he was 37; let's hope Riley doesn't get himself
challenged to a duel.
It's worthwhile to compare a drawing of Riley and a self-portrait of
Pushkin that appears in "St. Petersburg: A Cultural History."
FRANCIS X. CUNNINGHAM
Arlington
Pushkin in the Boondocks?
Monday , July 3, 2000 ; A18
Has anyone noticed the striking facial resemblance between the young rebel
Riley in the Boondocks comic and the great Russian poet Alexander
Sergeyevich Pushkin--who was also of African ancestry?
It's been said that Russians love their poets "young and dead." Pushkin
was killed in a duel when he was 37; let's hope Riley doesn't get himself
challenged to a duel.
It's worthwhile to compare a drawing of Riley and a self-portrait of
Pushkin that appears in "St. Petersburg: A Cultural History."
FRANCIS X. CUNNINGHAM
Arlington