ERIC LAGUARDIA

My deepest condolences to the family. Professor LaGuardia was a man of courage and dignity. He taught Milton around 1988-89, with generosity and great patience. We were somewhat in awe of him. We´d covered Areopagitica, and Rushdie had recently published his Satanic Verses. An evening reading materialized (I don´t think Rushdie himself), and I bumped into the Professor in a hallway, both of us in search of the right lecture room, because the posted notices had somehow mislead us. I...