
Ian McEwan
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
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The English Teacher, Is It a Remarkable Effect?
English came to me like a sort of priesthood, you knew. I began to feel that anyone who had not read the waste land or the canterbury tales was really not someone worth talking to. So iwas hewas something insufferable about all that. But i did arrive at e university with a pretty good grasp of the of the canon,. from wyatt and surrey through to sutewarden and larkin. And when roland goes and peeps intothe folder and sees this on hundred 30 sevenitays and is, doesn't register at all for years and years.
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