Face from the past in the newspaper

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Each Saturday, the Age newspaper that we read every day carries a magazine in it called the Good Weekend. It contains special interest stuff, sometimes in depth reports, and some regular features like "the Two of Us". That's an article about two people, be they a married couple, siblings, friends; any two interesting people.

Today I turned to that page to see a picture of a married couple, one half of which was my year 12 English Lit teacher! She looks exactly the same, but with white hair, even though I last saw her in 1976.

The picture brought back memories, not necessarily all good ones either, but mostly I remember the books. Our books were:
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky (depressing)
The Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (ok)
Chaucers Canterbury Tales (hideous; I hated the language)
The Go Between, by L.P. Hartley (hated it - set in Edwardian times, an illicit love story; one of those books where everyone is a hypocrite, but it's ok so long as things appear to be a certain way)

So there, a trip down memory lane. What a suprising thing to find in a newspaper!

[braided-rug]

It is isn't it?

I didn't read those ones, and found I couldn't remember the name of one yesterday about a river in Africa. We also read D H Lawrence.