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venlor xr 75 Stoner is a farm boy, initially studying agriculture and a requirement of his course is to take a class in English literature. The students are set two Shakespeare plays, and then some sonnets, including the 73rd. Asked to elucidate the poem by an impatient and sardonic professor, Stoner finds himself tongue-tied and embarrassed, unable to say more than "It means ??? it?means ???" And yet, something has happened within him: an epiphany rooted less in a moment of understanding than of not understanding. He has realised that there is something out there which, if he can seize it, will?unlock not just literature but life itself; and in advance of such future understanding, he already feels his humanity awakened, and a new kinship with those around him. His?life?will change utterly from this moment: he will discover "a sense of?wonder" at grammar, and grasp how?literature changes the world even?as it describes it. He becomes a?teacher,"which was simply a man to?whom his book is true, to whom is given a?dignity of art that has little to do with?his foolishness or weakness or?inadequacy as a man". Towards the end of his life, when he has endured many disappointments, he thinks of academe as "the only life that had not?betrayed him". And he understands also that there is a continual battle between the academy and the world: the academy must keep the world, and its values, out for as long as?possible.