Signatures in the Guestbook
Doesn't it seem that all those signatures were written by the same person?
shareNo, they were not. They were written by Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Cole Porter, Fred and Adele Astaire, and Maurice Chevalier.
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They blew up Congress!!! HAHAHA!
And they all learned cursive handwriting under the same teacher in the same class at the same school in the same country?
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
Every education system in every country in the world teaches its own style of penmanship, and those styles of penmanship are so distinctive that calligraphy experts are able to recognise a person's nationality by his style of writing. Marlene Dietrich's handwriting would be particularly distinctive, since Germans of her generation learned an style of cursive handwriting that was conspicuously different from other styles.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
Regarding the guestbook, I've always wondered why Poirot wrote "Belgium" beside his name. He's Belgian, yes, but doesn't he live in London?!
sharePerhaps it was because so very many of the people he meets mistake him for French. At least one person in every story.
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I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
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Regarding the guestbook, I've always wondered why Poirot wrote "Belgium" beside his name. He's Belgian, yes, but doesn't he live in London?!
Yes, Poirot lived in London and by 1939 had done so for years. Anyway he wouldn't have written just "Belgium" without including a city. (He's originally from Liège, I think.) It's a small country but not that small. :-)
Then again, this was a hotel that apparently had only had a string of famous guests and no ordinary people at all until this crowd arrived, so anything is possible. share