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Listed below are comments made by christopherhawtree between Saturday, 3rd January 2009 and Sunday, 4th January 2009.

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Celebrity Mastermind 11:11am on 04 Jan 2009 I am puzzled that there should be any need for "research guidance". If the subject is Thomas Hardy's novels, then all one needs to do is read or re-read them, and, of course, for a novelist who drew so much on places, a biography of him might prove handy.

Then again, as with so many of these quiz shows, one needs to ask whether the recital of facts (about fiction or anything else) is the same thing as knowledge.

More knowledge, less information is perhaps the key to success.
Celebrity Mastermind 10:01pm on 03 Jan 2009 I am puzzled.

If somebody has chosen to answer questions about Thomas Hardy's novels, then he or she does not need to be pointed towards "research tools". The subject is his novels, and anybody volunteering to answer questions about them will surely have - er - read them, and, for good measure, have looked at a biography or two of him for some grasp of his sources.

So, what are these mysterious "research tools"?

Be all that as it may, the real subject is that the recital of such details as swede-hacking at Flintcomb Ash is not knowledge - that is a different thing entirely from simply parading facts (whether about reality or fiction).

We need television programmes driven by intelligence rather than feats of memory.

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