IĬan’t say for certain anymore, but I believe that we started the semester off He would pick up there and continue to move along, word by word. Occasionally, someone would ask a question and divert him to another section of We would listen silently until the classĮnded, and then we would pick up at the same place the next class. Each day when we came into the class, he would beginĪ passage of the story and read through it with the class, providing his own The professor, Samuel Jaffe, followed a style ofĬlose reading that I suspect is no longer in style (and probably was not in The experience in that classroom was unlikeĪny I had before or after. Paragraph of the story, underlining and bracketing the text that describes “Alreadyīeginning to fade,” I wrote ominously in the margins of the very first Underlining and bracketing and adding significant notes to the text. Germanic studies, I was determined to do things right, and that meant lots of (even in pencil!) in my books today, but as a young undergraduate majoring in Annotations I found, in pen, throughout my copy of the story.
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