In Competition No. 2490 you were invited to give an account of the life of a historical figure condensed into seven days.
The assignment was inspired by a 19th-century nursery rhyme which tells the bleak tale of Solomon Grundy, who was born on a Monday and apparently dead by Sunday.
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