Right. But (have I told you this before?) my own favorite is personal and
comes with a moral: always write long words on the blackboard. I told my
students, when we were reading Epithalamion, that one of my own professors
(Kent Hieatt) had discovered . . . etc. etc. and then a few weeks later
read on the exam that "Spenser believed in a new morology and he felt that
this morology would make his marriage last a long time." I photocopied the
page and sent it to Kent, who replied that "According to Desiderius E.
without the *old* morology nobody would get married to begin with." And
indeed that's just what Folly says. Anne P (from a chilly but Spenserian
Kalamazoo).
> Okay, I know I let the cat out of the bag, but let's not start quoting
> lists
> of somebody else's student bloopers that we've read in various email
> forwards. That could mushroom beyond control.
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