Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly

podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter

Murray, James Harkin, and Anna Tashinsky. And once again we have gathered around the microphones

with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.

Starting with fact number one and that is Anna.

My fact this week is that shortly after writing an essay on why writers shouldn't publish anonymously,

Anthony Trollope published a book anonymously.

Oh, called out a mere 130 years from later.

Not a moment too soon. So I've just sort of inherited from a friend who

decided he was never going to read them, The Complete Works Fancy Chocolate.

Oh, nice.

And he's giving them to me in bits,

and he seems to have given me the three least known Antony Trolle.

So this is in the introduction to Nina Belatka,

which was...

If you want to get into Trollep, I would say probably don't start with that one.

It's not an entry level. No, no. Anyway, this fact.

Nina Black in the introduction, it just mentioned that he wrote an essay in 1865 and he said a man

should always dare to be responsible for the work which he does and should be ready

to accept the shame rebuffs ridicule or the indifference which will attend bad work.

And it's all about how, you know, put your name to something.

And then he didn't put his name to Nina Balakka.

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