on 25/10/05 12:57 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> & you're leaving your office for much the same reason as I did...?
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> Doug
I hadn't realized you'd left your office, Doug. You seem to be keeping up
the academic life in other respects.
Me, I'd been there since 1967!
Giving away surplus books to my last students, I heard them say: the date on
this is way before I was born. Or their parents, I think.
I kept back a copy of Woolf's Orlando because it was stamped in gold as a
high school prize 1954. I wonder if its story was known to the chooser.
Fowler's Modern Usage the same year was a more likely book for prize.
Strachey's Eminent Victorians, another prize book, suggests the English
master saw himself as an anti-Victorian still spreading the word.
Giving away Foucault quite cheerfully, critics on Shakespeare, Thomas
Pynchon, Mrs Gaskell, Céline...
Keeping Wordsworth, Orwell...
Max in Melbourne
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