Firm, fair, and friendly (2)

Firm, fair, and friendly (2)

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We had many interesting discussions on twain, crance, wholesale designer handbags and Dreiser, as I recall, but his favorite period was he 1920’s. he loved the expatriates: Anderson, bumming’s, Hemingway, Fitzgerald. He was always bringing in boods for us to read, but when he got to this period, he was a walking library. I think he’d read every book ever written by or about Hemingway and Fitzgerald, wholesale coach handbags or about Paris in the twenties. Yes, Mr. Jones was a fine teacher all right: he knew his subject, and he could teach it. But more than that, he made us love it, too. He made us want to continue to read it and study it on our own.

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