STAFF ROOM
Lying on someone's desk: a well-thumbed copy of Sylvia Plath's Ariel, which contains one of my favourite lines from any novel/poet/pithy moraliser. Particularly since it's also an opening line, and pure declaration. Here it is:
"THIS IS THE LIGHT OF THE MIND: COLD AND PLANETARY" (said of the moon).
I love that. And yet, in the department staffroom, I felt I shouldn't mention this. They don't seem to get excited by their subject v often. Perhaps that's not entirely true... it might be more a case of them looking askance at me for "being weird". So I kept quiet - seems to be for the best.
Lying on someone's desk: a well-thumbed copy of Sylvia Plath's Ariel, which contains one of my favourite lines from any novel/poet/pithy moraliser. Particularly since it's also an opening line, and pure declaration. Here it is:
"THIS IS THE LIGHT OF THE MIND: COLD AND PLANETARY" (said of the moon).
I love that. And yet, in the department staffroom, I felt I shouldn't mention this. They don't seem to get excited by their subject v often. Perhaps that's not entirely true... it might be more a case of them looking askance at me for "being weird". So I kept quiet - seems to be for the best.
