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2005-10-04 @ 8:13 p.m.

I got an M for English 'S', a satisfactory improvement which disaggregates to give a D, a U/M and an M-. Quite pleased that my essay on the L.P. Hartley passage netted me a D! The Go-Between sounds like an interesting book. I wonder if it's still in print? Shall look for it at Kinokuniya, if I happen to be there tomorrow after Mr Rollason's source-based test. I got a B for CCA, which is kind of amusing given the sort of stuff I joined. The quantitative versus qualitative debate is so obviously skewed in the favour of the latter, which is why PEARLS was scrapped anyway. So don't be sad if you didn't get a good CCA grade (because a lot of people out there are just like you). I have written two stanzas of my new poem, and it still doesn't feel as good as what I quoted here yesterday. Those lines happened to be mine too, in case you haven't realised. A stanza to end off: "The patina of age/Lies heavily on your/Silverware. It dully/Gleams, lying on fine bone/China scattered between/Us: another falsehood."