[lit-ideas] Re: Are you really that old?
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:06:44 -0400
I had a student in a third year classics course (the stuff before the
Greeks and Romans) write on a test: Noa Zark. There were lots of
difficult names in this course (Assurbanipal and Supiluliuma for two)
and I made a point of having them on the board but never imagined that
poor Noah and his boat needed a formal introduction.
Ursula
Still smiling at the thought in North Bay
David Ritchie wrote:
>on 9/25/04 3:48 PM, Andreas Ramos at andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>I was telling an anecdote about Winston Churchill to a friend who is in her
>>20s. She said
>>"Winson who?"
>>
>>She had heard the name, vaguely, but didn't know who he had ever been.
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>Tell her you know someone who went to his funeral.
>
>David Ritchie
>Portland, Oregon
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