That's better. That's Armour at the top of his game. Not to oversell him. He's mildly amusing in his snarky survey of English lit. But there's also a whiff of the old uncle who's humor is rather old-fashioned, but he's always been nice and pleasant and it's easy to just let him ramble on. So I'm...
I think Armour must have been a marvelous professor. What a delight to have an amusing prof talking about Shakespeare, poking mild fun at the heap of actors onstage at the end of a tragedy. And of course, reading his books, I enjoy all the silly footnotes. It's a bit like Terry Pratchett, without th...
In conclusion: You always want to be on the side storming down from the North.
In high school I envisioned college as being all preppy and somewhat New England: a cross between Animal House and Love Story and Heartbreak Hotel. None of this made any sense to me when I first read it, but I wanted to get it. Because I really didn't like high school.
My father picked this up for me on sale somewhere when I was in high school. I loved academic humor then. I still love Armour.
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