Some people have found his work so ludicrous that they thought it must have been made up by me. If you find yourself laughing at this writer, try to remember that every two weeks when he picks up his paycheck the laugh is on you. If it would make you feel better to imagine that he is the only one of his kind in American education, go ahead and try. The words of P were chosen because they ought to be familiar by now. Unlike the other examples, they have been widely quoted in the public press.
P is, maybe was, a high school principal in Texas.
P s companion in misery, the young man who wants to be an insurance adjuster, is, maybe was, also real, a recent graduate of a middle-sized middle Atlantic university. I wonder where he is now. The Learning Resources Centrist does his centering in the South in a prestigious institution of higher learning. His letter was, in fact, an objection to my objection to the term Leaning Resources Center for library. The source of the other citations is suggested in the text.