“A monument of misplaced scholarship”
… is how a Guardian reviewer describes a new edition of the diaries of Cambridge don and “Pomp and Circumstance”/“Land of Hope and Glory” lyricist A. C. Benson (1862–1925).
Having previewed the book on Amazon, I concur.
See, for instance, p. 267, n. 4 (the font is Fournier).
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Samuel will return to school this week. Tonight, he realized that he’ll go to school from August until June every year for the foreseeable future.
I told him I went to school for twenty-two years.
He can count much higher than twenty-two, and he can do other mathematical operations – he and Daniel made extraordinary progress this summer (his teacher will be shocked) – but, clearly, the concept of twenty-two years is beyond his reach.
The concept of an hour is barely within it.
He has the concept of living forever. He’s all for it. Like Wilbur the pig, he doesn’t want to die.
Having previewed the book on Amazon, I concur.
See, for instance, p. 267, n. 4 (the font is Fournier).
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Samuel will return to school this week. Tonight, he realized that he’ll go to school from August until June every year for the foreseeable future.
I told him I went to school for twenty-two years.
He can count much higher than twenty-two, and he can do other mathematical operations – he and Daniel made extraordinary progress this summer (his teacher will be shocked) – but, clearly, the concept of twenty-two years is beyond his reach.
The concept of an hour is barely within it.
He has the concept of living forever. He’s all for it. Like Wilbur the pig, he doesn’t want to die.