Helene Hanff Quotes

I Have These Guilts About Never Having Read Chaucer But I Was Talked Out Of Learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English By A Friend Who Had To Take It For Her Ph.D. They Told Her To Write An Essay In Early Anglo-Saxon On Any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. "Which Is All Very Well," She Said Bitterly, "but The Only Essay Subject You Can Find Enough Early Anglo-Saxon Words For Is 'How To Slaughter A Thousand Men In A Mead Hall'.

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