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The Grotto is a place where students in The Grotesque in Twentieth Century Literature (351:393) can share ideas about common texts and issues. NOTE FINAL EXAM INFO ON SIDE -->
FINAL EXAM INFORMATION
Remember that the final exam is this Thursday (the 7th) at 8:00 in our usual classroom in Scott Hall. Look over your syllabus and review the works on which your memory may be a little foggy. See you there!
Talking of the minuteness with which people will record the sayings of eminent persons, a story was told, that when Pope was on a visit to Spence at Oxford, as they looked from the window they saw a Gentleman Commoner, who was just come in from riding, amusing himself with whipping at a post. Pope took occasion to say, “That young gentleman seems to have little to do.” Mr. Beauclerk observed, “Then, to be sure, Spence turned round and wrote that down;” and went on to say to Dr. Johnson, “Pope, Sir, would have said the same of you, if he had seen you distilling.” JOHNSON. “Sir, if Pope had told me of my distilling, I would have told him of his grotto.”
--Boswell's Life of Johnson
--Boswell's Life of Johnson
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