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Third Witch wrote:

Little Bird wrote: While I won't feed the troll, and USMTTT is a troll.  I do want to say that from what I hear, his last remark may very well be a point to consider and take as a warning. I've heard, but cannot reveal my source, sorry, that SFT plans some nasty retaliation toward faculty members.  Keep your guard up. He can do that. He can hurt, slash, ruin and destroy. He can damage and wreck. We already know that. What would be interesting to see is whether he can heal, forgive, build, create, grow and leave things better. By age 70, a person really ought to start thinking about their legacy in the world. I know I'm thinking about mine.

Let those who may fear their ends.  TW's comments remind me of Prince Hal's parting words to Falstaff at the end of 2 Henry 4: 


I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy Prayers:
How ill white haires become a Foole, and Jester.
I have long dream'd of such a kinde of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so prophane:
But being awake, I do despise my dreame.
Make lesse thy body (hence) and more thy Grace,
Leave gourmandizing; Know the Grave doth gape
For thee, thrice wider then for other men.



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I obviously got here too late for all of the fun, but did enjoy reading it.

Cossack, I'm not from that background, either , but I enjoy reading poetry more all the time. It is weird to realize that music and poetry carry their impact over hundreds of years and strike just as hard as they did when they were written.

in college out of state, You have chosen a superb area of research. What is it about poetry that makes it carry so strongly into our emotions? I have seen a grown man break down and cry when reading, "Because I could not stop for Death.."

By the way, I skip the trolls.


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Little Bird wrote:

USM Sympathizer-- No, I can't say, all I know is my source stated that SFT was going after certian people to destroy them. And would he go before the Fac Sen and media and tell a bold faced lie?  Do bears go in the woods?
As I said on another thread, if Shelby tries anything nasty he had better be prepared for a firestorm of publicity that will end his presidency even more quickly than he is assuming it will end.  Retaliation of the sort you mention is EXACTLY the sort of thing that would be of great interest to the wider academic community.  It is also the sort of thing that would lend itself to some great lawsuits and ultimately cost the state of Mississippi lots of money (you know: the sort of money being paid to the last duo of professors Shelby tried to fire).  I don't doubt that Shelby is bone-headed enough to try something like this, but it would be the icing on the squashed, moldering cake of his failed presidency.

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