December 2011
68 posts
“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he...”
– Rebecca West (via libraryland)
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Must we Pay for Sanskrit? Michael Wood. LRB.
But my experience of working with the Leverhulme Trust, for example, suggests strongly that many leading executives, like the rest of us, are interested in quality for money, which is quite different from value for money, and even interested in qualities that don’t immediately have to do with money at all. Their question would be, about a Sanskrit scholar, say, ‘How good is she?’ not: ‘Who cares...
