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Название книги: Valedictory address to the University of Oxford
Автор(ы): John Ronald Ruel Tolkien
Жанр: Публицистика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Valedictory-address-to-the-University-of-Oxford-146356.html
John Ronald Ruel TolkienVALEDICTORY ADDRESS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
It might be held characteristic that, though I have occupied two chairs (or sat uneasily on the edge of two chairs) in this university, I have not yet delivered an inaugural lecture: I am now about 34 years behind. At the time of my first election I was too astonished (a feeling that has never quite left me) to gather my wits, until I had already given many ordinary lectures as required by statute, and it seemed to me that an inaugural that would not inaugurate was a ceremony better omitted. On the second occasion, my ineffectiveness as a lecturer was already well known, and well-wishers had made sure (by letter or otherwise) that I should know it too; so I thought it unnecessary to give a special exhibition of this unfortunate defect. And, though twenty years had then gone by, during which this matter of the overdue inaugural had been much on my mind, I had not
Название книги: Valedictory address to the University of Oxford
Автор(ы): John Ronald Ruel Tolkien
Жанр: Публицистика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Valedictory-address-to-the-University-of-Oxford-146356.html
John Ronald Ruel TolkienVALEDICTORY ADDRESS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
It might be held characteristic that, though I have occupied two chairs (or sat uneasily on the edge of two chairs) in this university, I have not yet delivered an inaugural lecture: I am now about 34 years behind. At the time of my first election I was too astonished (a feeling that has never quite left me) to gather my wits, until I had already given many ordinary lectures as required by statute, and it seemed to me that an inaugural that would not inaugurate was a ceremony better omitted. On the second occasion, my ineffectiveness as a lecturer was already well known, and well-wishers had made sure (by letter or otherwise) that I should know it too; so I thought it unnecessary to give a special exhibition of this unfortunate defect. And, though twenty years had then gone by, during which this matter of the overdue inaugural had been much on my mind, I had not
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