[PW] Project-Wombat-FM Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2: Seeking Story

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See: "Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes"  Clifton Fadiman, Andre Bernard, General Editors,  Revised edition (2000).  

The second entry under "Emerson": 

"Among the sages whom Emerson sought out on his visit to Europe was the notoriously reticent and difficult Thomas Carlyle. He called on Carlyle one evening and was given a pipe, while his host took one himself. They sat together smoking in perfect silence until bedtime, and on parting shook hands most cordially, congratulating each other on the fruitful time they had enjoyed together."

 

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