Max Grubb Resentful Academic

IT IS JUST AFTER 10.30 ON A CHILL January morning at the University of Clacton, and with the Interwar Class (Woolf, Eliot, Pound) safely disposed of and the Post-Colonial Voices seminar (Selvon, Emecheta, Rushdie) arriving at 11am, Dr Max Grubb, comfortably ensconced in his departmental office, is hard at work on a letter. er. “Dear Mr X,” he writes, with a formality as glacial as the January morning, “Having read your review of the Lawrence letters in the Spectator, I feel it my duty to protest at the highly inadequate treatment of his dealings with Lady Ottoline Morrell. In fact, it seemed to me that your knowledge of Lawrence’s life and work, let alone the philosophical grounding that underpins it, was woefully insufficient for the task in hand …” The…

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