It was a beautiful day on the Lake Morey Country Club golf course that had drawn hordes of visitors, some hopping from one golf course to another, others attending weddings and golfing, and of course the ladies, bless them the way the play! and the.
John recently mentioned that he s reading James Joyce s Ulysses. This is a footnote on his comment for anyone who might be inclined to take up his mention of the book. Through sheer good luck I came across the Osher Lifetime Learning Institute affiliated with Dartmouth College in the fall of 2020. It has been my goal to do the assigned reading I didn’t get to or get the most out
The Book of the Courtier, and
The Life of Lazrillo De Tormes, all but the last of which were among the assigned reading for Comp. Lit. 22 with Professor Trafton.
Digression: Leon Black, who endowed the chair in Shakespearean Studies that Professor Crewe held, was one of my best friends at Dartmouth. I lived with him and three other Dartmouth seniors during our last quarter before graduation. We all knew Leon was going to be successful.
Leon spent his senior year working on a dissertation exploring the theme of the mask in European art and literature. In the spring of 1973 I attended Leon’s presentation on the dissertation in Sanborn House. It featured a slide illustration and accompanying discussion of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” Although the image has become a cliché since then, I was unfamiliar with it at the time.