AZ Mystery – chapter 4
– Languages Professor Samuel McGovern – age 57 No matter the language I was teaching, music and poetry were great ways for students to gain a better understanding. For the more advanced classes, I always make one of their assignments the composition of a song or poem. Translated to English, some high points of the dreadful atrocity I was grading were, “They lustfully enjoyed stacking his barber’s cow eggs”, and “He longed to stir his stinky ear and frolic in her charcoal again”. Less than a quarter of the verses rhymed, and there were more typos than lines. Unfortunately, it was six times the minimum length I had specified. I thought if he was going to serve his audience something toxic, at least he should be decent enough to make it a small portion. It …