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.)