Rosa and Coleridge

[Stefan Diös]

On the related subject "Barks and Coleridge", I brought the Swedish version 
of "The Not-so-ancient Mariner" (WDC 312) to class when we studied 
Coleridge in high school some 25 years ago. The teacher was so impressed by 
finding real poetry in a Duck comic that she immediately signed up as a 
member of NAFS(k), our Donaldist society, even ending up as a member of the 
board for one period.

And on the also related subject "Rosa and teaching", where I'm sure that 
hundreds of similar examples can be given from aorund the world, I'll 
contribute this little item: My sister, who is a teacher, ordered extra 
copies of Rosa's "The Island at the Edge of Time" (also the Swedish 
version, of course) in order to show her junior high students how the 
international date line works. No textbook she had ever encountered, she 
told me, managed to explain this phenomenon as clearly (not to mention 
entertainingly!) as Don did in this story.


S Diös