[Vwoolf] Elizabeth Abel

[Mary Ellen Foley]

My in-laws used that service when they needed a flat for a month of working
at the British Museum. They found one in a fabulous building in a
near-perfect location -- but turned out to be stuffed to the gills with the
owner's hoard of "collectibles".  There were two drawers in the flat that
were available for them to use, and no hanging space.  There was a drawer
of antique combs, and one of antique pin cushions, and one full of jotting
pads all printed with the logo of a long-ago conference of pork producers.
To sit on a chair, I had to move a stack of cushions two feet high (there
were cushions stacked in between the chair legs, too), topped by an
enormous stuffed seal wearing a mortarboard.  The full regalia of a bishop,
inherited, the landlord said, hung in a dry cleaner's bag on the back of
the door, over all kinds of other garments, and it was as much as your life
was worth to open the kitchen cupboards.

They (my in-laws) have, over the years, allowed any number of academics and
students to live in their house and have the care of their animals. I can't
remember all the troubles, except for one fellow who left with all the lids
for the pans, though not the pans themselves, and who had cut the plugs off
of all the appliances.

That's not as bad as my father-in-law's brother's situation, when he
returned from sabbatical in France to find that his academic tenants had
brought in heavy equipment and begun to dig a swimming pool on his
unspoiled property in the Santa Cruz mountains.

So...I'm with the fellow in the article who said he's amazed that people
let strangers into their homes.

Mary Ellen

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Kimberly Coates <kimbec at bgsu.edu> wrote:

> I feel awful for her. What a nightmare!!!!
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> From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+kimbec=bgsu.edu at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of
> Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, January 6, 2017 at 10:19 AM
> To: "Stuart N. Clarke" <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
> Cc: "vwoolf at lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Elizabeth Abel
>
> Wow! This story has it all... coming soon to a theater (er... live
> streaming episodic server) near you.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 6, 2017, at 4:53 AM, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.
> com> wrote:
>
> Of course, this could happen to almost anyone.  When B. J. Kirkpatrick –
> conscientious, careful, cautious – went to Canberra for a couple of years
> in the late 1970s, the tenant in her little terrace house in the Portobello
> Road had to be evicted, the house thoroughly cleaned and the needles
> carefully collected.
>
> I am interested, however, in academics (philosophers, psychologists, &c.)
> whose expertise doesn’t seem to impinge on their everyday life.  Other
> professionals too (social workers?).  And we’ve all heard of good
> electricians whose own houses would not pass Health and Safety.
>
> If your research area is “Domestic industry in Upper Brabant in the second
> half of the Middle Ages”, it’s not likely to affect your everyday life.
> But if you’ve written a book called "Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of
> Psychoanalysis" . . .
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> *From:* Graham Borland
> *Sent:* Friday, January 6, 2017 3:42 AM
> *To:* Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Elizabeth Abel
>
> Just when I thought "This couldn't get any more bizarre", Wendy Brown and
> Judith Butler come into the story...
>
> On Fri 6 Jan 2017 at 2:48 a.m., Mark Hussey <mhussey at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> A sorry tale of possible interest to some Woolfians…
>>
>> http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/berkeley-
>> sarah-lawrence-professor-house-rental-saga
>>
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