Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for May 07, 2010

I’m Dunne, John. (I’m done (with my list), John.)

For the ones who didn’t know, John Dunne wrote the poem in the beginning of For Whom The Bell Tolls.

The first day of Freshman English, the Prof read a sonnet by John Dunne. When asked what it meant, I showed my worth by answering “A cheap seduction.” “Young man, everything Dunne wrote was to God and nothing he wrote was cheap.” How was I to know the prof’s Doctorate was on Dunne? How was I to know I would take four more classes from him? How was I to know he would be the advisor to our anti-nuclear group (he held the wallets while we got arrested)? I shudder when I think of John Dunne.

It’s spelled, “Donne”, not “Dunne”. It is pronounced, “Done”, however.

He’s not very Ernest to do it.

Lewreader, with a pun that bad your worst reaction is to the memory of that kind of acaedmic trauma? Must have been one hell of a protest rally.

Anyway, if the guy’s dissertation was on Donne, he obviously took Donne too seriously to see that a skilled writer can turn a psalm of praise into a tool for cheap seduction. :-)

Not to defend Lew, but it was spelled Dunne in LOTS ‘60’s and ‘70’s English books. My Mom taught out of them. I remember.

But then we aft gang aglae.