Thanks so much, Susan--I needed that tonight! Betsy
At 09:27 PM 11/26/2007, you wrote:
>So, it's midnight in Nova Scotia, and I'm reading the last
>instalments of my students' journals for the term. As usual, I am
>by turns delighted and dismayed at what they have "got" and what has
>missed them altogether.
>
>I turn one more page, and think -- I have to tell Betsy about this
>-- and while I'm at it, why not tell all of CASLL?
>
>So here's my student's addendum, unedited.
>***
>
>The End
>
>Some people spend chunks of money on things that don't always last
>long. Little chunks, yes, but chunks nonetheless. People buy shoes
>for sixty dollars -- twice that even. (I myself am frugal in the
>shoe department.)
>
>This book (conversations) is my pair of sixty dollar shoes.
>
>I'll have it until I wear holes in it, or until I grow out of it.
>
>(But I know my feet stopped growing years ago.)
>
>***
>
>Thanks, Betsy.
>
>
>Susan
>
>
>
>Susan Drain, PhD
>Department of English
>Mount Saint Vincent University
>Halifax, NS Canada B3M 2J6
>902 457 6220
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