The Observer's Commonplace
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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The Observer's Commonplace — short observations, marginalia, fragments, and the occasional discovery piece.
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On The Edge of Knowing
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On the Roastiness of Plump Unspeakable Birds
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