“Mr. Martin, have you stopped splitting your infinitives yet?” Mrs. Hitchcock stood in front of my second period English class and asked me that question. It was about the only “wife-beating” sort of question appropriate to ask a ninth grader, and I was frozen. I was mortified. All heads turned toward me. I had been brought up to understand that it was rude to give clever answers to adults’ questions, because adults would probably not…
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