A Darwin scarf?
So I was wearing my old college scarf yesterday, not for any snobbish reasons but because it's the warmest scarf I have and it has been cold. And someone came up to me and asked "Is that a Darwin scarf?" First time anything like that has happened in Toronto. And I admitted it wasn't, with that slight apology that Trinity people sometimes feel we owe for our extreme insularity, and it had been so long (my grade 12 Latin teacher gave me the scarf when he heard I was going up to Cambridge, and that was 18 years ago) that for a few moments I didn't even remember whether we had a Darwin College.
But of course we did; and it was in the gardens there that I did Theseus from Midsummer Night's Dream at the end of my first undergraduate year -- they had said they wanted a dead-serious Theseus, who might sound as though he was reading the FT while doing the "More strange than true" speech, and I thought "Sure, I can do that". And where the fireworks from a neighbouring May Ball seriously disrupted our stroll and dialogue in IV.i and then completely failed to come in on cue when I wanted them for the throwaway line "Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns".
You know, for all the complaining I may do from time to time, it has been an interesting old life, and no mistake.
And, because after that I was curious to see what a Darwin scarf looked like, here's the list.
But of course we did; and it was in the gardens there that I did Theseus from Midsummer Night's Dream at the end of my first undergraduate year -- they had said they wanted a dead-serious Theseus, who might sound as though he was reading the FT while doing the "More strange than true" speech, and I thought "Sure, I can do that". And where the fireworks from a neighbouring May Ball seriously disrupted our stroll and dialogue in IV.i and then completely failed to come in on cue when I wanted them for the throwaway line "Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns".
You know, for all the complaining I may do from time to time, it has been an interesting old life, and no mistake.
And, because after that I was curious to see what a Darwin scarf looked like, here's the list.