My marginalia to Chapman's uncharitable but lovely quoting from Quine's memoirs.
His remembrances of Oxford:
"Paul and Peter would alternate from week to week in the roles of speaker and commentator"
He attended one seminar ("more than enough").
"Grice would read his paper, and then Strawson would read his prepared comments."
"Towards the foot of page 9, I believe you said"
"I'm not sure what to make of that question"
"It depends, I should have thought, on what one means by ..."
"This is a point that I shall think further about before the next meeting"
The outsider comments without _knowing_:
"Considered judgement (sic) was of the essence; spontaneity was not. They were NOT outgoing."
But they were _English_. What was _he_ expecting!
(And it's not like Harvard is like Socrates in the _agora_, either).
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And Quine cares to forget that, all the time, Paul was robbing Peter to pay his self!
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