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
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:
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>> & 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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All day long the heart’s
dark bud unfurls
coils for its quick season
-- How could I forget
you, Heart?
Diana Hartog
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