On Sat, 10 May 2008 12:59:51 +0200
C Addison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A 3rd-year student at the University of Stellenbosch, circa 1980:
> "Cleopatra betrayed Antony when she withdrew her naval at the crucial
> moment."
>
> Catherine Addison
> University of Zululand
Dear Catherine:
There's no topping that star from Stellenbosch, but honorable menton goes to
the inspired Bible student in a Catholic secondary school (USA) who wrote
on his exam that "Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day but a ball of fire
at night."
(Tho', both on first blush and second thought, this is an acute Freudian
"condensation" of Gen. 19's actual content.)
Yours, Jim N.
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James Nohrnberg
Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219
Univ. of Virginia
P.O Box 400121
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
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