Shame on you, Martin, I take this issue *seriously. <g>
(As I should, given the amount of braincells I've wasted on this recently.)
What more and more strikes me is that we are (leaving the penumbra of blogs
and gossip aside) confronted by both inept scholarship and inept [with the
exception of Fenton] journalism.
Nobody seems (surprise, surprise) to have actually looked at the
"scholarship" behind _The Lecherous Professor_.
As to journalism, it's a little unnerving that the best documented piece on
the current events is still that published in a student newspaper:
http://www.cherwell.org/content/8744
Oh bloody hell, just when you think it couldn't get any weirder, the person
involved in the 1996 suit just posted this to the Cherwell:
"Derek Walcott" by Nicole Mary Kelby
Posted: 16:12 GMT, Thu 14th May 2009
I wish you all would reconsider the vote on Saturday. Derek deserves better
than this smear campaign.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article6288023.ece "
You really *couldn't make this stuff up!!!
Robin
(Yeah, I know, "how come we know this isn't a false name?" but I'd credit
the kids on the Cherwell with having at least the nous to back-check the
author of this -- N.M.Kelby isn't that difficult to contact.
R.)
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