Finally began attacking the essays last night, leaving me with:
- 47 hebdomadals
- 48 exam essays
It's always somewhat amusing to see all the heat-of-the-moment misnamings that come through on the exams. Within a single essay, for example, there might be a Dr. Jekyll, a Dr. Jeckyl, a Dr. Jekyl, and a Dr. Jeckyl. George Eliot is sometimes an Eliott, an Elliot, and an Elliott -- but she made up the name anyway, so why shouldn't we modify it a little bit at will? My favorite, though, was seeing new versions of my own name crop up on the fronts of blue books: "Kevin Shapiro," for example, or "Meier." Really I'm in no position to tease: a couple years ago I wrote a 20-page essay for MOR that referred regularly to Edmund Casaubon.
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Did you get to "Mighty Mike" yet?
And look out for William Bankes being referred to as "Wallace"
"Mighty Mike" doesn't count as a misspelling! (For the rest of you: Ed [306] added an ironic epithet to the front of his blue book.) I have to say that it was comforting to find Mighty Mike sitting two blue books beneath Kevin Shapiro.
settle down kevin
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