Word: balaam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completed his titanic Les Miserables, as well as other novels. By night he seduced the flower of Guernsey's chambermaids and, in table-tapping seances, had long discussions with "Moliere, Shakespeare, Anacreon, Dante, Racine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Latude, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Plato, Isaiah . . . the Dove of the Ark, Balaam's Ass." All these apparitions agreed that Hugo was acting for the best; many spoke in excellent Hugo-istic verse. Lord Byron, however, insisted on speaking English...