In a message dated 3/27/00 10:18:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:
 
<<  If this is the life of
 academia, perhaps I should reconsider my choice of careers...  >>
 
Perhaps a job in sanitation? I'm sure they wouldn't worry about Heaney or
Anglo-Saxon issues.
 
"and the fabians crying for the petrification of putrefaction,
for a new dung-flow cut in lozenges,
the conservatives chatting,
             distinguished by gaiters of slum-flesh,
and the back-scratchers in a great circle,
           complaining of insufficient attention,
the search without end, counterclaim for the missing scratch"
 
(c.XV)
 
 
(hmph! it just hit me: is that the first chunk of the C (i.e. more than one
line) I've seen on this list in the past three months? I think it might be.)