And as soon as you throw them out there will come a question and you will
think I had my notes about that!!
Cheers P are the paper clips rusty??
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Sent: 08 November 2012 19:08
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Subject: 'clearing out paper'
Clearing Out Paper
Into the waste-paper bin
with the old lecture scripts! -
some dating back to the 'sixties.
Their writing soaked up a lot of work -
revising for later years less so -
and idle now almost a decade.
Why did I keep them so long?
Only a few were much good,
but - walking the dog sometimes,
I'd feel I was back in the classroom,
hoping my keenness spoke
at least to the best students,
while doubting the rest, so far behind
always in their reading.
Did they keep their notes?
I did. I find here also, headed:
Dr Sheppard: Henry James:
'The rather suspect F.R.Leavis.'
That was 1962!
Out with those notes too!
Keenness I do claim, without
much certainty that is what was
perceived. 'Oh, that Max,
rabbiting on, so earnest,
always unfinished when the hour is up.
What does he see in Huck Finn?'
Bin the lot! keep just the paper clips.
8 November 2012=
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