wonderful wonderful, ole mole.
---- TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's real. I can't remember where I first saw it. I found it this time
> by doing a Google Image Search.
>
> andrew burke wrote:
> > What an obscene picture! Thanks for sharing it. Where did it come
> > from? Is it staged or 'real'?
> >
> > I was visiting schools once, courtesy of the local Arts Dept, and I
> > asked one class if they had ever read anything written by me.
> > 'Yes, sir,' one boy politely stood up. 'We did your poem last week.'
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 29/09/2007, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/ball.howl.jpg
> >>
> >> Jon Corelis wrote:
> >>
> >>> A long time ago I read somewhere the following story, told by someone
> >>> who had taught English at West Point.
> >>>
> >>> In the time of this story (I'm not sure if it's still the same,) the
> >>> method of instruction at West Point classes was that the professor
> >>> would call students in turn in class. The student when called would
> >>> stand at attention and the professor would ask the student a question.
> >>> When the question had been answered and discussed, that student would
> >>> sit down, and the professor would call on another.
> >>>
> >>> Well, it seems that at one point the class were studying Keats's "The
> >>> Eve of St. Agnes," and the professor, wanting to be sure that all the
> >>> students at least understood the narrative, was calling on each of the
> >>> students in turn, asking each of them to describe in their own words
> >>> what was happening in the poem.
> >>>
> >>> About halfway through the class, the professor called on one student
> >>> who stood to attention and said, "Sir!" The professor asked him to
> >>> please tell the class, in his own words, what was going on in the
> >>> poem's 23rd stanza. The student said, "Sir! As the woman entered the
> >>> room, simultaneously a large South American mammal exited through the
> >>> door, Sir!"
> >>>
> >>> The professor, unable to credit his hearing, asked the student to
> >>> repeat his answer, and it was the same. "And how," asked the
> >>> professor, "did you arrive at that interpretation?"
> >>>
> >>> "Sir!" answered the student, "I verified the animal's name in a
> >>> reference book, Sir!"
> >>>
> >>> The first line of stanza 23 of Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes" is:
> >>>
> >>> "Out went the taper as she hurried in ..."
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> --
> >> Tad Richards
> >> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> >> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Tad Richards
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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