GRIFFEN 2024 | 13 Teaching English Andrew Jamison Hollywood would have us ripping introductions clean from canonical anthologies, on tables shouting O Captain! My Captain!, recitals during penalty shoot-outs, midnight discussions underground, smoking pipes and playing sax, students riding pillion on our motorbikes, breaking into song mid close analysis in bow ties, leather jackets, half man half quotation-jukebox. Waiting at the whiteboard of my white-walled room I’ve watched the outside world’s chiaroscuro beyond railings all day. All day they come and go: a blur of blazers, questions, answers, daydream and clock-watching. I pass on what I know; they pass through the corridor, into tomorrow. m
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