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Competition

Consequences

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2892 you were invited to submit an irregular quatrain in which you bring together two people from the world of the arts and then add a couplet describing the consequences.
Two competitors paired Tolkien and Graham Greene, with not dissimilar results. Here’s D.A. Prince:

If J.R.R. Tolkien
Met Graham Greene
Would a hobbit’s story
Become The Power and The Glory?


And take two from Virginia Price-Evans:

Had J.R.R.

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