(This is in many ways a schoolboy essay).
David, if your article were a schoolboy's essay, it would score highly for style.
These are grim times, but anyone who doubts the value and importance of art galleries and museums should read a 14-year-old schoolboy's essay that went on show at Tate Britain this week as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations for the Tate Archive.
While it's easy enough to pass over some of Leavitt's minor slips (no one ever procured a "fellowship" at a provincial university), there are one or two real corkers: "Miss Haversham" for Dickens's Miss Havisham, for instance, and the schoolboy Hardy writing an essay about "Harold, son of Godwin, whose death in 1064 in the Battle of Hastings was portrayed in the Bayeux tapestries".
But here we begin to get a clue as to the origins of Walser's almost idiotic simplicity, in that two of the larger sections are devoted to the musings and essays of a schoolboy.
As a schoolboy, he dutifully read the prescribed essays of Addison, Belloc, Chesterton, Hazlitt and Lamb; for pleasure, he read Zane Gray and Edgar Wallace.
Inspired by an essay written by a local schoolboy, the community raised A$80,000 to commission a monument in Towner's memory.
That child, a nerdy schoolboy growing up in New York, is reflected endlessly in the popular essays that made him famous.
This essay is drawn from the introduction to Robert Walser's "A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories," translated by Damion Searls and published by NYRB Classics.
Asked to write an essay entitled "My Thoughts on Choosing a Profession", the 16-year-old schoolboy dwelt on his obligations to society, his natural abilities and the desire for a useful life.
