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“Imagine… students.. algebra equation.
However difficult the sum there will be one correct answer. Imagine an English lesson being asked 'What is Hamlet, the play, about?' There should be a range of answers, from ‘The best way to appoint a king' to 'In what circumstances is suicide a proper decision? It would be a disaster if every member of the class parrotted what someone else had said or thought.”

“…The host, pointing to his groaning shelves, proudly exclaims, 'Look at 𝚖𝚢 books!' An author, scanning the shelves, says jubilantly, 'I see you've got one of 𝚖𝚢 books - did you enjoy it?
A publisher, also inspecting the books, says ‘I’m very glad to see you've got so many of 𝚘𝚞𝚛 books on the shelf’. They are all right, in a sense..”

“ Hear an illustration, reader….
A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face…” “….How he calls aloud a name, and drops his burden and gazes on it wildly! He thus grasps, and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears for waken by any sound he can utter—by any movement he can make. He thought his love slept sweetly: he finds she is stone dead.”

“Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I would call myself posterior of its clay dwelling-place. And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame.”

Meg…you are so stupid

Yeah I saw that coming 🫤

DNF at 43%