every monday and thursday the first years in the english department have lunch together at dudley and it's always jolly.

1.

[on levenson's use of "invaginate" in romanticism readings for this week.]

laura: scientists only get to talk about sex in biology, but we talk about it all the time.

2.

[on educated tattoos]

odile: the trouble was that [some yale latinist she knew] already had a tattoo that said amanda, which was the name of his previous girlfriend. so he got a new tattoo above it to say "heather est."

3.

[on relearning languages]

margaret: ...because i learnt greek without the accents.
me: oh my dear! they taught you lady's greek at mcgill?