"Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.“


-Joyce Carol Oates

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Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

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