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[Wilson Gray]

Ye gods and little fishes! It's spreading!

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> In an undergraduate theatre class this morning the professor (early
> sixties, lighting expert) said, after playfully hitting a student with a
> sheet of paper: ‘Professor cowers student just before course evaluations’.
> Nobody noticed, except yr, humble servant...
>
> Geoff
>
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>
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>
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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