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ENGLISH 439: AUTHOR, AUTHOR: The essay question:Can Swift warm up a cold winter's night?

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20060215
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Byline: Julia Keller

Feb. 15--Editor's Note: Julia Keller is attending a winter-quarter class at DePaul University on Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and writing about it. This is the sixth of her reports, which appear Wednesdays. Earlier installments are available at chicagotribune.com/class.

The sky was garbage-can gray, a dirty, depressing shade that made the prospect of a three-hour-and-fifteen-minute class on a long-dead but somehow still long-winded author downright grim.

For the first five classes, the commute from downtown Chicago to DePaul's Lincoln Park ...

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