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Dammit, Kent, you're right again.  (As I said in an email to you I hadn't meant to go b/c.) I had a few fruitless years (not) doing post-graduate research there on Hart Crane, with dismal supervision - Oxford, at least in those days, was certainly not the place to go for American literature. Nor, pace Robin, where I'd look for a schooling in good manners - but I studied before that at Nottingham, and there I actually got something of an education.
  Excuse the reminiscences, but you did ask!
Jamie


On 18 Oct 2016, at 21:15, Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

You mean you went to Oxford, Jamie?

>>> Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> 10/18/16 3:11 PM >>>
You’re right I went to Cambridge but only as a decorator where I worked on a house for about four ever colder months. Still I’m sure all that clever varsity wit must have rubbed off on me.
 
From: [log in to unmask]" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Kent Johnson
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That's nice of you to say, Jamie.

Though of course, you went to Cambridge, so you are probably making fun of me in a subtle way that is beyond me.

>>> Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> 10/18/16 2:41 PM >>>

Don't do yourself down, Kent: it's not rattling that counts - resonating's better.
 

On 18 Oct 2016, at 20:34, Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

In that debate video, when I watch Alexander Waugh, anti-Stratfordian grandson of Evelyn, and see how easily he offers arcane, rat-a-tat facts in off-the-cuff rebuttal, I am reminded how little I really know, or ever will know, now, and how modest my cerebrum is compared to those of many others, especially intellectuals from Britain trained at Oxbridge. That's meant as both a funny and serious sentence.