Giving away working papers, Doug, might give a person the feeling that the
work is over. Take care....
Max
On 22/07/11 12:39 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, Max, I know of many others, at least in our faculty, who donated their
> university papers to the library at UofA. I gave them only material to do with
> my teaching over the years; I kjept, for the time being, everything to do with
> peotry & criticism (mean to give that to an archive interested in prairie
> writing [but am rather slow about it]).
>
> Doug
> (yes, all those words we cant use as we used to)
>
> On 2011-07-20, at 6:24 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>
>> Gosh, Doug, that is so splendid - working papers go to the archive
>> (accessible, I trust), AND the tax break. I wonder whether this was for
>> creative types like you or across the board, scientists, etc., leading to a
>> vast academic archive...
>>
>> Max
>> (that word twitter has taken on such a new life, inconveniently for me)
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem
> strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
> inadequacies.
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> William H. Gass
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