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The Little Girls' father attended an Oxford college that's celebrating its 400th anniversary this year (yes I know, Johnny-come-lately.) The memorial picture book, with history and architecture and all, was sitting down in their living room, so I skimmed it after TLG went to bed. I'd thought I was passingly familiar with British university life, but evidently not. Or I wouldn't have kept thinking, 'Oh, so *this* is where Pratchett's coming from' in amongst ancient scandals about bursars who didn't keep the books and vice-chancellors who didn't keep the minutes, and appointments to chairs that turned into (character) assassination attempts. (Am amused by the story that Maurice Bowra got passed over for the Chair of Greek studies on account of purportedly being too gay for his predecessor's tastes.)
( Bursar? Master? Vice-chancellor? )

Show Tunes

On an obscure impulse I went looking for the famous 'I will have to sing show tunes' entry. It's now f-locked, as is the whole of that livejournal, which makes all the many many links to it useless. Finally tracked down an extant entry: a still extant entry. Vita longa, lj brevis, so I've put the full text below the cut, not unaware of the irony that it too is on an lj.
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