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From: The Spectator
Date: 19970517
Author:Keates, Jonathan

This term my sixth at teh City of London School has been doing King Lear. A-Level English Literature is done rather than read, you understand, a process resembling that to which Jerome K. Jerome's eponymous Three Men in A Boat ('to say nothing of the Dog!') subjected their recalcitrant tin pineapple. 'We beat it out flat, we beat it back square, we battered it into every form known to geometry --but we could not make in it.'

Attempting to hearten the troop ---and, I may say, with the object of relieving the existenal glumness to which encounters with this unfathomably great yet unspeakably ...

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