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• Philosophical alternative to chicken comes first for intellectuals?
• Clever ones get E's
• Well-read and scholarly people
• Well-read types
• The well-read intelligentsia
• Literary intelligentsia is spinning first class rubbish
• Humpty Dumpty and friends are great intellectuals
• Book lovers of literature come across irate jumble
• Big brains, say, Shed, Arachne and Gordius, each only beginning to appear addled
• Reading class?
• Well-read folks
• Bookish types having some wine in Boston at lunchtime?
• Scholarly sorts
• Contributors to The Paris Review, e.g
• Small breakfast nuts for those of brainbox breed