Nohrnberg is so nice:

i'd just sent him a v upset email about how badly it's going and how i feel pressured by his expectation and not wanting to disgrace him, and he sent me this quote from Paradise Lost.


....take heed lest Passion sway
Thy Judgement, ...
The weal or woe in thee is plac't; ...
I in thy persevering shall rejoice,
And all the Blest:


--Par. Lost VIII, 635-640, Raphael telling Adam to 'stand fast'



it is really comforting. i shall persevere.