;-) Thanks [I think], Max. One wonders how many students/listeners have
the urge to vomit during a lecture.
May be just me, but I always found that the pre-lecture or speaking jitters
entirely disappeared once I began to talk, and, oddly, they didnae increase
with audience size. I've spoken [as a labour union official, not a poet] in
front of a thousand people, but have been more jittery speaking to small
gatherings of folk whose expertise, work, reputation and experience far
exceeded my own.
Best,
Judy
2009/2/10 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Primal wisdom, o patrick and jon, for young and old.
>
> And have the route spied out for a quick dash at any time.
>
> Once before I think I quoted an academic survey about teaching and
> lecturing
> nerves. Several reported a quick vomit before commencing duty.
> My old friend Wystan Curnow, once on this list but too busy writing the
> biographer of Colin McCahon the great NZ painter, noted that he believed he
> was
> the only lecturer to have vomited during a lecture. He was art lecturer on
> a
> Pacific cruise liner.
>
> Max
>
> Quoting Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
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> > AND TWICE SO FOR OLD POETS
> > P FROM EXPERIENCE !
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> > Just before you give a reading, go to the bathroom, even if you think
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