I look at this piece completed on Pearl Harbor Day, 1959, and remember that three and a half months earlier I had been the night telegrapher on the Kansas City Southern in Port Arthur, Texas.
That was a long time ago. I had no idea until the last decade or so that Churchill, Jane Austen, and I were all descended from Sir Thomas Leigh, the Lord Mayor at Elizabeth's coronation. Cassandra Austen and I are excessively pleased at this descent.
And despite the misspelling (typographical error, surely) in the conclusion, I am pleased with the ending, now.
Harth, who went on to Wisconsin, was a very great teacher.
What a shock Northwestern was, and the strange dominatrix in Harth's class with her little whip and the catatonic boy with her. And I had $1800 given me to go to school for a year.
That was a long time ago. I had no idea until the last decade or so that Churchill, Jane Austen, and I were all descended from Sir Thomas Leigh, the Lord Mayor at Elizabeth's coronation. Cassandra Austen and I are excessively pleased at this descent.
And despite the misspelling (typographical error, surely) in the conclusion, I am pleased with the ending, now.
Harth, who went on to Wisconsin, was a very great teacher.
What a shock Northwestern was, and the strange dominatrix in Harth's class with her little whip and the catatonic boy with her. And I had $1800 given me to go to school for a year.
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