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It's real. I can't remember where I first saw it. I found it this time by doing a Google Image Search. andrew burke wrote: > What an obscene picture! Thanks for sharing it. Where did it come > from? Is it staged or 'real'? > > I was visiting schools once, courtesy of the local Arts Dept, and I > asked one class if they had ever read anything written by me. > 'Yes, sir,' one boy politely stood up. 'We did your poem last week.' > > > Andrew > > On 29/09/2007, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/ball.howl.jpg >> >> Jon Corelis wrote: >> >>> A long time ago I read somewhere the following story, told by someone >>> who had taught English at West Point. >>> >>> In the time of this story (I'm not sure if it's still the same,) the >>> method of instruction at West Point classes was that the professor >>> would call students in turn in class. The student when called would >>> stand at attention and the professor would ask the student a question. >>> When the question had been answered and discussed, that student would >>> sit down, and the professor would call on another. >>> >>> Well, it seems that at one point the class were studying Keats's "The >>> Eve of St. Agnes," and the professor, wanting to be sure that all the >>> students at least understood the narrative, was calling on each of the >>> students in turn, asking each of them to describe in their own words >>> what was happening in the poem. >>> >>> About halfway through the class, the professor called on one student >>> who stood to attention and said, "Sir!" The professor asked him to >>> please tell the class, in his own words, what was going on in the >>> poem's 23rd stanza. The student said, "Sir! As the woman entered the >>> room, simultaneously a large South American mammal exited through the >>> door, Sir!" >>> >>> The professor, unable to credit his hearing, asked the student to >>> repeat his answer, and it was the same. "And how," asked the >>> professor, "did you arrive at that interpretation?" >>> >>> "Sir!" answered the student, "I verified the animal's name in a >>> reference book, Sir!" >>> >>> The first line of stanza 23 of Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes" is: >>> >>> "Out went the taper as she hurried in ..." >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Tad Richards >> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ >> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ >> >> > > > -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/