03 The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen - Part 1

03 The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen - Part 1

Published on Dec 17
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<p style="line-height:30px;hyphens:auto;color:#333333;text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;" data-flag="normal"><b>03 The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen - Part 1</b></p><span><br /></span><p style="line-height:30px;hyphens:auto;color:#333333;text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;" data-flag="normal">Professor Roy Millen had loved his wife devotedly, and now she was dead…. He made his plans to go abroad, to England, to work in the libraries there, as he and his wife had planned. It was what she should have him do, he told himself. And the book would be a kind of monument to her. He would dedicate the book to her. As he walked slowly back from the campus to his house in the late afternoons or early evenings of spring, he would try to compose the dedication, saying the words aloud to himself as he looked up at the paling, peach-colored sky beyond the newly leafed branches. ...