Lord Chekhov?
So, the clue was Salman Rushdie's in-hiding pseudonym that paid tribute to both Conrad and Chekhov.
Two of them picked "Lord Jim". Just how did they rationalize Chekhov?
It's Joseph Anton.
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You cannot leave. You cannot drop the armor now. Why? Because you are needed, more than ever. You are mandatory to keep the energy flowing, the karmic vibrator buzzing, to keep the progressive and lucid half of the nation breathing and healthy and awake and ever reaching out to the half that's wallowing in fear and violence and homophobia and sexual dread, hoping to find harmony instead of cacophony, common ground instead of civil war, some sort of a shared love of a country so messy and internationally disrespected and openly confused its own president can't even speak the language.
After all, you don't hand over all your children the first time the flying monkeys bang on your door...
It's far from over. The tunnel is just a little darker -- and longer -- than we imagined.
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"Jeopardy!" was preempted in our market for an additional ½-hour of network news coverage from 7-7:30 of the Boston Marathon bombing, so I missed this -- we could've used the comic relief of "Jeopardy!" tonight (at least we still had "Wheel" and "Dancing with the Stars" to relieve the sorrow and anger.
The there was tonight's "Before & After" puzzle on "Wheel of Fortune." Even husband, who's normally almost oblivious to the show (except to mock Sajak's toupée), was flabbergasted by the contestant's guess of "L" for the missing letter:
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