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At the beginning of Act Two, Housman has failed his Oxford exams and returned home, where he sits with his sister Katharine on 鈥淢ount Pisgah,鈥� a hillside near their home. Housman refuses to explain how or why he failed his exams. Katharine is worried about her older brother--she considers herself a dunce and not necessarily intellectual enough to understand Housman鈥檚 scholarship--but she is more concerned with his spiritual health than his academic career.
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Housman: 鈥� All the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Juda unto the utmost sea, but not including Wales which I give to the Methodists.
Kate: But what happened, Alfred?
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Kate: That was only to punish Him for mother dying.
Housman: And by God, He stayed punished.
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 50-52.
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