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  1. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    So what are we looking at here – “Lies, d@mned lies, and … numbers?”

  2. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    Oh, you cunning little thing!

  3. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    I would hope, only for 4 years.

  4. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    Well, the Scientific Method involves making a theory to fit the facts – not changing the results to fit the theory. They’ve been doing that with the Bible for years. Maybe Danae should be studying Theology.

  5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    To their credit, they were very interested in the argument. Our teacher once gave us the final verses of Le Morte d’Arthur from Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, to “explain” them. I mentioned that Arthur left Bedivere “holding the bag”; Arthur was off to have his grievous wound taken care of, and Bedivere was ‘the last of all his knights’, and so the condition of the realm fell on his shoulders. Oh, and he had to pray for Arthur, ‘day and night’ (essentially because he was the only one left, to be able to do so). There was more, but you get the picture. The teacher wrote “You Philistine .. you unutterable philistine!” on my essay. And then gave me 8.5 out of 10. That’s a Distinction. We were also told how to interpret “She should have died hereafter/There would have been a time for such a word” from Shakespeare’s Scottish play (you know the one). They interpreted it as being more-or-less a peevish rant. I said I didn’t agree with that, and in fact I believed that it was a cry from the heart. After some to-and-fro, the teacher(s) let me have my way. I think, if anything, they were prepared to accept the argument. I also think what they were doing was pushing some interpretation given to them by some clerk in the Department of Education. Not to be too cynical, but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility, that a lot of my teachers simply hadn’t read the play.

  6. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

    My mother couldn’t understand why I couldn’t ‘get’ mathematics; she’d say that there could only ever be a correct answer – “See? It’s simple .. there’s only one answer (that’s correct).” I was much more interested in English, and especially in the interpretation of texts. My interpretation of certain poems, or extracts from (mainly) Shakespearean plays, differed from the teacher’s, and then you could have a discussion. Even at the end, you could retain your own interpretation.

  7. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Very clever.

  8. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Well, don’t hold back – tell us how it works; after all, if the book says so, it MUST be right!

  9. 4 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Don’t wish too hard for what you want,’cause when you get it, you may find .. oh, you know the rest.

  10. 4 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Mister and Missus Charon (or is that Karen?); I suppose it does get a bit tiring, and someone has t take over the rowing, occasionally.