clarity

from Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace.

....."... She says I am not a good guide."
....."But you were a teacher."
....."Of the most incidental kind. Teaching was never a vocation for me. Certainly I never aspired to teach people how to live. I was what used to be called a scholar. I wrote books about dead people. That was where my heart was. I taught only to make a living."
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