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Ah, Dr. Strabismus, a welcome welcome and thank you so much for applying for a lecturing post in this department.

As you know, your formal interview with the Vice-Chancellor will take place later to today, but

meanwhile we'd very much like you to mix, well informally with other members of the department most of whom have made

themselves available for that very purpose don't be afraid to ask them questions about

sociology at York and anything else at all that's well it's on your mind well yes

that was more or less my standard head of department's

spiel whenever we were seeking to employ a new lecturer. I probably knew at the

time that it was a rather dubious procedure attest to the applicant's social capacities

rather than their intellectual merit but those who are called upon to judge

others are typically too enamoured of their role to admit they are anything but

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