Talking* to British** People

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Hauser Sophomore Scholars 2013: Reports from the Field: Day 2: Talking* to British** People: *Includes overhearing and nodding. **And those pesky colonials.

Well, I ate lunch today, but I’m starting to think that six hours in a chair with a twenty-minute break still isn’t a terribly effective research strategy.

For instance, this morning my eyes started to glaze over as Mr. M.J. Berkeley’s handwriting on pages and pages of letters morphed into a stream of pretty, meaningless shapes.  This may also have been because I was eavesdropping on the very loud conversation between….

The Kew Money Guy, The British Documentary Filmmaker, and The Loud Americans.

KMG: “The Reading Room is open for use by anyone who needs to be here.”

TLA: “What’s the criteria for ‘needs to be here’? Who gets to decides?”

BDF: [Doesn’t speak, but I imagine he nods ingratiatingly, or else looks away in shame.]

KMG: “Well, if someone came in and said, ‘I want to look at pictures of roses,’ we might suggest they could be better-suited elsewhere.”

Lesson: A polite British let-down is a big fat rejection.  Also, just like Shakespeare and double entendres, if it sounds sarcastic, it is...........

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