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Assumption College, now called Windsor University, was very cordial to Lewis and had him on the staff of the English department, where he lectured on Tolstoy’s War and Peace, on Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, and on a wide range of modern fiction. His classroom manner was greatly appreciated by the students. He was extremely informal and would occasionally strip off his turtleneck sweater in the class when he found it too warm. When somebody sneezed he would manifest considerable alarm, rush to open windows, explaining that the room was rapidly filling up with germs and they would soon all come down with terrible colds.
“Wyndham Lewis,” in The Atlantic, 1969, p 93
Year: 1969
Chapter: Lewis, Wyndham
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