by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Other Engagements Matches base text
Language: English
Our translations: 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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Composition:
- Set to music 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
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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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