Ha took me two goes to get that !
P the peasant
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Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 01 October 2010 10:53
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Subject: Re: overheard in a corridor in academe
very good
L
On Thu, September 30, 2010 19:31, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Couilde also have answered "gesundheit!
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>> From: Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sep 30, 2010 10:31 AM
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>> Subject: Re: overheard in a corridor in academe
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>> Very well, that is no less...something...than a story from a
>> professor-friend while I was doing graduate work. She got into an
>> argument with one of her senior faculty who said with great authority,
>> "Miss W., I happen to be a Sidnist!" To which my friend answered, "Oh,
>> that's okay. I understand Oscar Wilde was too."
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>> Ken
>> --------------
>> Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
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>> "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
>> --Francine du Plessix Gray
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>> On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> He: I been trying to read Aristotle's Poetics
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>>> She: Wassat?
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>>> He (2): Some boring Greek book about Poetry
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>>> --
>>> "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both
>>> of us are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't
>>> propose to die with polite insincerities in my mouth. " C S Lewis -
>>> That Hideous Strength
>>> ---
>>> Lawrence Upton
>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>>> Dept of Music
>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>
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"This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us
are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to
die with polite insincerities in my mouth. "
C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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