"I said, as kindly as possible, and keeping the domestic metaphor in
mind, that it was like having a drunken uncle."
What was his response?
Michael
To me, he said "oh, Lord -- yes, I can see what you mean" -- but an hour
or so later I overhead him repeating what I had said to an American
colleague, with a sense of the awful confirmation of something he had
been apprehensive about. He was (and I hope still is!) a very nice man.
G.
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto),
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA
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