British Humor, Lectures, and the Nether-Eye

The Lectures have been fantastic in the tradition of the quirky imagination of the English. For example, I have heard talks on the act of walking as interpretation which included weird trees of London and graffiti as text, the nether-eye in "The Millers Tale," and the psychoanalytic process of transference in Anthony and Cleopatra (what is love anyway?). I had a flit of panic fly through my bones today in a lecture entitled "Making Sense of Poems" where it felt uncomfortably similar to Maja-Lisa'a advanced grammar class, but oh, oh, much more radical. No wonder there isn't an American equivalent to The Oxford English Grammar text.