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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Self-knowledge of bookstore workers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.194103.7686@eff.org>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:41:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.185136.3330@athena.mit.edu> kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan) writes:
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- > First of all, I am reminded of a *book*, specifically one of
- >David Lodge's (either *Small World* or *Changing Places*) where the
- >academics play "humiliation" - the basic idea being to admit to books
- >important to your field of study that you have never read. The punch
- >line coming when the Shakespeare scholar (Philip Swallow?) blurts out
- >that he's never read *Hamlet*.
-
- Oh, but it's not Swallow, the transplanted English academic from a
- redbrick university, who hasn't read "Hamlet." Not the least of the reasons
- Fido will enjoy reading David Lodge is that Lodge quite correctly has an
- *American* academic who hasn't read "Hamlet." The American is torn between
- his need to win the game and the humiliation of admitting that he hasn't
- read an essential Shakespeare play.
-
- The book is the amusing CHANGING PLACES; its sequel, the even better SMALL
- WORLD.
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- --Mike
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