Quite forceful:
"I wrote to him about this
and he replied that many people feel foreign in their own language."
On Jan 25, 2008 1:30 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> I'm reading The Idea of Home: autobiographical essays, by John Hughes
> (Giramondo 2004) born 1961.
>
> After Newcastle (NSW) University he tried 'research' at Cambridge, but
> when
> his grandfather, a Ukrainian who told him real stories, died, went off it.
>
> He writes:
> 'Cambridge is a difficult place to drop out of - who would accept boredom
> as
> an excuse? Certainly not my grandfather. It was, after all, my sense of
> his
> expectation that had put me there in the first place. And so, the
> irony...'
>
> Earlier he wrote:
> 'I hadn't enjoyed my time in Cambridge. I felt like there was something
> wrong inside myself. I found myself translating all the time, but without
> a
> change of language. Everything would have been so much easier, though, if
> they'd only spoken something other than English. I wrote to him about this
> and he replied that many people feel foreign in their own language.'
>
>
>
> On 25/1/08 9:31 AM, "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Somewhere in a dark corner of my heart, I wish Oxford and Cambridge
> > razed to the ground. In their place would be raised small housing
> > estates and farms.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On Jan 24, 2008 10:21 PM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> My favourite is still the 'phone call to the porter of Jesus College,
> >> around midnight Christmas Eve:
> >>
> >> "Hello, is that Jesus?"
> >> "Yes, it is, hello?"
> >> "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
> >>
> >
> >
>
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>
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