![]() ![]() In all of these endeavours, Jim is failing miserably. To this end, he is trying to get an article published in a new history journal, is cajoling students to sign up to the new course he has yet to devise and is attempting to keep Welsh and his family sweet on a personal level. ![]() When the novel opens, Jim’s primary concern is convincing his head of department Professor Welsh, not to end his contract at the end of term. ![]() Jim is an amiable and flippant protagonist and Amis guides the reader through a rogue’s gallery of lecturers, fraudulent arty types and academic bores as Jim ties to hold on to his university position and straighten out his love-life, preferably with as little effort as possible.ĭoing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. ![]()
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