agamisy

I've just marked an essay in which a student insisted on referring to the knightly hero as the "protagamist." While half of the portmanteau is clearly "protagonist", what's the other half? Bigamist? Agamist? An agamist, I discover, is someone opposed to the notion of marriage. Which, bizarrely enough, does actually apply not only to the tutor, but to the knightly hero in question. Do you think this was serendipity, or was the student being a smartarse?

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In my sleep, I have apparently become enamoured of mathematical logic, to the extent where I somnambulistically checked out three books on the subject from the university library. Very odd they look, too, sitting in my record among all the tomes on folklore and narrative theory. (And celebrity culture, but I'm not telling the department about that current interest). Failing the "study in my sleep" theory, I assume some dingbat library technician managed to issue them on my account to someone else. It gave me a very odd moment of complete identity fugue, however. I've been vague enough lately that I actually couldn't, for a moment, say definitively that I hadn't taken them out. Please do inform me, people, if you see any suspicious signs of mathematical logic anywhere in my vicinity...

My nice editor finally responded to me today! He said very complimentary things about all my updates, and made a few constructive suggestions. I am all fired with enthusiasm, like, and have spent the afternoon madly updating chapters. Am down to the last two. I plan to kill them in the next week, before the marking load hits on Thursday, so no guarantees about blog presence. This entry is being frantically typed while I wait for an online paper on fairy tale to download.