It is quite a special day when one of your students, striving to make a favourable impression on two guests from a British school in Leeds, introduces Sycorax, the witch, (from an abridged prose version of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest') as the mother of the monster 'Cannibal'.
He said it with such confidence that I myself was confused for a moment. Not Caliban ?
And then, I found the rest of the class staring stony-faced at him.
He didn't seem unnerved, though.
I don't know if the visitors were impressed with the originality of his answer. They left almost immediately !
He said it with such confidence that I myself was confused for a moment. Not Caliban ?
And then, I found the rest of the class staring stony-faced at him.
He didn't seem unnerved, though.
I don't know if the visitors were impressed with the originality of his answer. They left almost immediately !
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