Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Wendell Johnson

(Feb 2009): Students of Course 280 who registered in sections that are not their own will be sent back to their original sections ... be warned!

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When told that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, Sir Winston Churchill replied  "Still?"

(Source: The Wordsworth Book of Literary Anecdotes.) 

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". . . human kind

Cannot bear very much reality"         

                                      (T S Eliot - of course)

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"Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art." 

(Oscar Wilde from The Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray)

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"... a Man who has the Gift of Ridicule, is apt to find Fault with any Thing that gives him an Opportunity of exerting his beloved Talent"

Addison (Spectator 291, 1712)

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... Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Yeats, "The Second Coming"

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"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human"

(Edward Said, The Scope of Orientalism)

Duel between Yvain and Gawain. Garrett MS. No. 125. Manuscripts Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton University Library (Source: www.wwnorton.com/nael/ images/middle/duel.jpg)