Comments on: A note to future students: They put the dates on the readings for a reason http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/12/02/a-note-to-future-students-they-put-the-dates-on-the-readings-for-a-reason/ "A man needn't go far to find a subject, if he's ready with his salt-box."--Uncle Pumblechook Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:16:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Rohan Maitzen http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/12/02/a-note-to-future-students-they-put-the-dates-on-the-readings-for-a-reason/#comment-4900 Rohan Maitzen Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:05:04 +0000 http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/12/02/a-note-to-future-students-they-put-the-dates-on-the-readings-for-a-reason/#comment-4900 Remember the David Lodge bit about the scholar who decides his work will sound more exciting if he says it's about the influence of T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare rather than the other way around? Perhaps your students are just innovative. :-) Remember the David Lodge bit about the scholar who decides his work will sound more exciting if he says it’s about the influence of T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare rather than the other way around? Perhaps your students are just innovative. :-)

]]> By: Alex http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/12/02/a-note-to-future-students-they-put-the-dates-on-the-readings-for-a-reason/#comment-4815 Alex Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:59:59 +0000 http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/12/02/a-note-to-future-students-they-put-the-dates-on-the-readings-for-a-reason/#comment-4815 " absent a time machine, Tennyson’s poem can’t refer to Darwin’s idea." I'm on it. ” absent a time machine, Tennyson’s poem can’t refer to Darwin’s idea.”

I’m on it.

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