by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Other Engagements
Language: English
Available translation(s): FRE
Taipei. A young Taiwanese man has written seven hundred love letters to his girlfriend over the past two years — trying to get her to marry him. His persistence finally brought him results. A newspaper reported yesterday the girl has become engaged to the postman who delivered all of those letters.
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Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941), "Other Engagements", 2008 [ mezzo-soprano and guitar ], from Five True Remarkable Occurrences, no. 5, confirmed with composer's website [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "D'autres fiançailles", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-11-19
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Word count: 51