Saturday, March 29, 2008
'Defines the word mentor'
John, who earlier this week mentioned the late William Alfred in a HB post, has found an old video clip of his Harvard mentor. John:
John, who earlier this week mentioned the late William Alfred in a HB post, has found an old video clip of his Harvard mentor. John:
I'll never forget when I first told him that I planned to write about Lord of the Rings, which to the Harvard English faculty of that time was still quite 'suspect', he said I was going to have to put a lot of linguistic research in to ground my paper, because "they're going to be waiting for you --with baseball bats." It was sound advice ...
