tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post894530662196649726..comments2024-03-16T13:54:59.016-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `What Holds One's Attention'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-40168755990847100792010-07-04T11:36:11.986-05:002010-07-04T11:36:11.986-05:00You'll sympathize with a Seattle-reared friend...You'll sympathize with a Seattle-reared friend of mine from who, as a schoolboy, became unruly and offensive in a classroom discussion of poems.<br /><br />Called to answer for himself after class, he said that she had read aloud the stupidest poem he ever heard, which began:<br /><br />"I wandered lonely as a cloud"<br /><br />The teacher had to explain to him that, in other parts of the world, clouds appeared singly, one by one -- and not in a large, unrelieved bank of color.<br /><br />Hecht is sorely missed; I reviewed his <i>Darkness and the Light</i> for the WaPo Book World here: <br /><a rel="nofollow"> http://tiny.cc/j0xmw </a>Cynthia Havenhttp://bookhaven.stanford.edunoreply@blogger.com