> Ah, I'm emeritus now Max. And I spent the months of May & June emptying
> my office, a huge job as there were materials there from as far back as
> 69. I'm assuming you are retiring/ed now too?
>
> Still available to come & give readings & lectures, though... <g>
>
> Like Andrew in England, if anyone takes is offer up....
>
> Doug
Congratulations, Doug, or is it a sad,unwanted retirement farewell forced by
the system? How are you going to continue to flourish without that umbrella
of students and colleagues on the playground!
Go with the local Bears!!?? Or, off to a new life in Paris or Cambodia or
Melbourne?? Or, San Francisco?? Or are you use your skills to run for
Mayor??
Give us all some clues.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Ghosts upon ghosts!
> On 25-Oct-05, at 1:30 AM, cooee wrote:
>
>> 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...?
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
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> dark bud unfurls
> coils for its quick season
> -- How could I forget
> you, Heart?
>
> Diana Hartog
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