Sarah Binks, A Musical Tribute - Library2

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HIEBERT: In any event, St. Midget’s loss was Sarah's gain, for his deficiency
in pundits brought him to rural Saskatchewan.
SARAH:
fountain."
HIEBERT:
Dad used to say, "Information gushed outta him like soda from a
In his first report, Greenglow enthused about his new assignment.
GREENGLOW: They take to geology like the Board of Trade. At present the
juniors are out on practical work, classifying the field boulders into big ones, little
ones, and in between ones, earning the necessary units and credits. Only half
the seniors were here today, and she wouldn’t be here either, if I hadn’t created
a postgraduate division. That’s Mathilda. Boy, does that kid know her geology!
The other half is the Binks girl, who was off helping her old man with the haying.
I lent her my copy of Warden and Rockbuster, which came back with two pages
missing, fortunately not the ones containing my last year’s notes.
HIEBERT: Greenglow's pedagogy was the essence of simplicity. To teach his
class geology, he required that they teach it to him.
SARAH: He sometimes kept Mathilda and me after school because we
couldn't seem to get through the substrata. It was hard with just one copy of the
textbook.
MATHILDA: We were drilled -- but never bored. And a good time was had by
all.
HIEBERT: Greenglow's geological influence on Mathilda was sedimentary, but
the effect of his teaching on Sarah's poetic muse was nothing less than volcanic.
(WAIT FOR “JUNE” CHORDS)
… No later than June of that summer she had begun her great Epic, Up from the
Magma and Back Again.
SARAH:
Strictly speaking, The Magma was written later.
HIEBERT: I realize that the thirteen cantos were not completed until many
years later, but surely they were conceived in Greenglow's class.
SARAH:
Well yeah, if you mean I started thinking about them in school.
HIEBERT: And surely the great "pterodactyl" refrain was composed during this
period. (HE CHECKS) The lines are written in the flyleaf of this very book!
GREENGLOW:
MEET
SHOULD MADDENED PTERODACTYL CHANCE TO
WITH RAGING CROCODILE,
THEN CROCODILE THE PTERODACTYL EAT,