Archive for Victor Bobb
Among the Barlows
Professor Bobb teaches English at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. We called them barlows. The term was both condescending and unjust, for most of them were not really barlows. But there was enough generic similarity that the label was too useful to be abandoned. In the beginning a barlow was an itinerant wino who hired [...]
1Feb1988 | Victor Bobb | 0 comments | Continued-
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