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Hector as a character- ‘(Hector is…’

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‘a man of studied eccentricity)’

2
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Hector and education- ‘A-levels, those…’

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‘longed-for emblems of your conformity’

3
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Hector and education ‘I would call…’

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‘these lessons A Waste Of Time’

4
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Hector and education- ‘So I’ll thank you…’

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‘(hitting him) if nobody mentions Oxford (hit) or Cambridge (hit) in my lessons’

5
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Hector as a character- ‘(He covers…’

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‘his ears)’

6
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Hector and education- ‘You [Mrs Lintott] give them…’

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‘an education. I give them the wherewithal to resist it’

7
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Hector and education/ art and literature- ‘Learn it now…’

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‘know it now and you’ll understand it whenever… We’re making our deathbeds here, boys’

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Hector and education- ‘I count examinations…’

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‘even for Oxford and Cambridge, as the enemy of education. Which is not to say that I don’t regard education as the enemy of education too’

9
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Hector and sexuality- Lintott: ‘His somewhat…’

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‘unexpected wife’

10
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Hector and art and literature- ‘That is where…’

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‘they [quotes] belong [the heart] and like the other components of the heart not to be defiled by being trotted out to order’

11
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Hector and education- ‘Ah…’

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‘Pornography.’ [about going through exams and mark schemes]

12
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Hector and art and literature/ sexuality- ‘Un-kissed…’

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‘Un-rejoicing. Un-confessed. Un-embraced… Un-spent. Un-fingermarked… a sense of not sharing, of being out of it’

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Hector and art and literature- ‘The best moments in reading…’

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‘are when you come across something… which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else… And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours’

14
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Hector and sexuality- ‘(He puts out his hand…’

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‘and it seems for a moment as if Posner will take it, or even that Hector may put it on Posner’s knee. But the moment passes)’

15
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Hector and sexuality/ art and literature- ‘The words…’

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‘of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo’

16
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Hector and truth and lies- ‘I… I have…’

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‘something I have to… tell you’

17
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Hector and education- ‘SHUT UP, you…’

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’ mindless fools. What made me piss my life away in the god-forsaken place?’

18
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Hector and truth and lies- ‘Pay up…’

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‘pay up, and play the game’

19
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Hector and truth and lies- ‘May I make…’

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‘a suggestion? Why can they not all tell the truth?’

20
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Hector and education- ‘Magnificently…’

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‘unprepared for the long littleness of life’

21
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Hector and education- ‘Pass the parcel…’

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‘That’s sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys -that’s the game I want you to learn. Pass it on’