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An English Professor’s Lessons in Not Lecturing
I was a misfit growing up — an old codger in young skin. I pestered and harried my instructors from Martley to Malvern, including Prof. Harry, a
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Diligently, Gentlemen. Onward!
What is said of accounting departments — that Receivables is more diligent than Payables — has always seemed to me to require examination. Because of what, exactly?
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An English Professor’s Lessons in Not Lecturing
I was a misfit growing up — an old codger in young skin. I pestered and harried my instructors from Martley to Malvern, including Prof. Harry, a
The Observer's Commonplace
On Falstaff… Eventually
A symposium, a chance meeting, and a card — summer 2000
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After the Sirens
It is generally agreed by most scholiasts that, after the engagement with the sirens, there followed additional trials for the oar-worn Odysseyians, numerous afflictions of the
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On Sirens, Their Numbers, And Look, It Was Probably Three
A private notation on the count I can tell you Odysseus lost no men to the sea on the sirens’ account — or a lack of a
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On Lightning
A private notation, after a prompt Lightning, you say? Well, I'd rather not say, thank you. You see, I'm not one to
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On the Proof Being in Ovid's Pudding
Robinson Ellis was everything asked of a teacher, several things unasked, and one or two things you avoided asking entirely, even after graduation. But it was
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On The Needles
Just across the Channel on the edge of the Garden Isle, close to the Hampshire shore, lie The Needles. Well, one needle lies for certain, and
