Luca Paolini also impressed in the same race, leading home Bettini before finishing third himself.

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One difference is that Chatterton paid for his poetry with his life, while Paolini gets paid for life.

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The head of TF1, Nonce Paolini, described Dr Costa's death as a tragedy.

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So to say that Paolini is an unskilled narrator and a derivative mythmaker is more or less beside the point.

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Since October, the euro has fallen 8% and the European market has fallen by about the same amount, says Paolini.

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Paolini explains that if you have a 10% rise in the price of oil, that will translate into a 10% higher cost for electricity.

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Paolini was only eighteen when the first volume of his Eragon series, the tale of the dragon rider Eragon, was privately published, in 2001.

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It is no insult to young Paolini to say that his books are effectively co-written with Tolkien, any more than it is an insult to Chatterton-Rowley to say that his had a co-author in Macpherson-Ossian or, for that matter, that virtually all medieval-minded historical novels in the nineteenth century, including some very good ones, were produced jointly with Sir Walter Scott.

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