Very well, that is no less...something...than a story from a professor-friend while I was doing graduate work. She got into an argument with one of her senior faculty who said with great authority, "Miss W., I happen to be a Sidnist!" To which my friend answered, "Oh, that's okay. I understand Oscar Wilde was too."
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
--Francine du Plessix Gray
On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> He: I been trying to read Aristotle's Poetics
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> She: Wassat?
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> He (2): Some boring Greek book about Poetry
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> "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us
> are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to
> die with polite insincerities in my mouth. "
> C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength
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> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
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