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litical scenes
intimate revelations about rulers and ministers. In the early eighteenth
century Swiftin Book Three of
Gulliver’s Travelscould still talk about
‘those who pretend to write anecdotes or secret history’as though the
two things were the same. But by then the word had begun to acquire the
looser sense which it has had ever since––as the Concise Oxford Dictionary
puts itthat of ‘a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident’.
To most peoplean anecdote simply means a good story.
On that de?nitionit can be about anyone or anything. Most of us like
to tell stories about our friendsour enemiesour neighboursand (not
least) ourselves. The heroes of many classic anecdotes are obscure; others
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dotes––certainly published ones––have always been about prominent
?gures. To some extent the explanation for this lies no deeper than the
cult of celebrity. Anecdotes about the famous often re?ect their fameand
little else; an incident which would be considered commonplace if it
involved a bit-player is assumed to be fascinating when it involves a star.
But there are better reasons too. Many famous ?gures fully merit our
curioyilai:
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