The Sorcerer's House Questions (Major Spoilers)

Jonathan Goodwin · 23 Mar 2010, 17:05 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: joncgoodwin at gmail.com (Jonathan Goodwin)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:05:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)
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I detected a snideness to it, first of all, and it comes at a point
where she's talking about not having learned much in
college--presumably because of all of these politically correct
liberals, etc. The snideness seems to me to indicate that the
professor had some sapphic interest in her because she's also been
writing in that letter about how her looks affect people.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Goodwin
> <joncgoodwin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Women's Studies professor at Mt. Holyoke who gave Millie a good
>> grade if she would let her hold her hand was fairly offensive, I
>> thought.
>
> On pg 238, I had took that as the metaphorical use of 'hand-holding':
> Millie was in the middle of saying how her grades were terrible except
> for that professor helping her out.
>
> --
> gwern
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