Don't worry, Max, it's your keenness that's your legacy, not the paper - or the clips. I'm impressed here that unlike anyone else's, mine anyway, lecture notes, yours are 'scripts'.
Bill
On 09/11/2012, at 6:08 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Clearing Out Paper
>
> Into the waste-paper bin
> with the old lecture scripts! -
> some dating back to the 'sixties.
>
> Their writing soaked up a lot of work -
> revising for later years less so -
> and idle now almost a decade.
>
> Why did I keep them so long?
> Only a few were much good,
> but - walking the dog sometimes,
>
> I'd feel I was back in the classroom,
> hoping my keenness spoke
> at least to the best students,
>
> while doubting the rest, so far behind
> always in their reading.
> Did they keep their notes?
>
> I did. I find here also, headed:
> Dr Sheppard: Henry James:
> 'The rather suspect F.R.Leavis…'
>
> That was 1962!
> Out with those notes too!
> Keenness I do claim, without
>
> much certainty that is what was
> perceived. 'Oh, that Max,
> rabbiting on, so earnest,
>
> always unfinished when the hour is up.
> What does he see in Huck Finn?'
> Bin the lot! keep just the paper clips.
>
> 8 November 2012
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