In beginning to prepare this tribute to Meaghan Morris’s work I went to the bulging folder that contains the letters and postcards and draft papers she sent me over a period of about twenty years, from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (more recently we’ve communicated almost entirely by email). One of the things that strikes me, looking through these pages with their typewritten text full of crossings-out and handwritten marginalia, is the enormous care Meaghan gives to her intellectual relationships, in my case with someone she didn’t know all that well, who lived on the other side of the country, and with whom there were significant points of intellectual difference. One of the letters I’m going to quote from is ten closely typed pages long, and to write it she would first have to have read, closely and carefully, a dense and abstruse paper of mine, set in what looks like 8-point font and to me today almost unreadable. Now consider that I was just one of Meaghan’s correspondents. I don’t know how many people received letters like this from her, but I’m pretty sure she had ongoing written conversations with a number of other people in Australia and elsewhere. Meaghan was and is a teacher: she takes intellectual debate as seriously as anyone I’ve ever known, and she conducts it with care, with tact, and with passion.

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地址问题：对于梅根·莫里斯（Meaghan Morris）

在开始准备对Meaghan Morris的工作表示敬意时，我去了鼓鼓形的文件夹，其中包含她从1980年代初到2000年代初大约二十年来寄给我的信件，明信片和草稿（最近，我们已经几乎完全通过电子邮件交流）。Meaghan十分感激我的一件事，就是仔细阅读这些页面上的打字文本，这些文本充满了划线和手写的边距符号，这是Meaghan对她的智力关系的极大关怀，就我而言，她与一个她不太了解的人在一起，他们生活在该国的另一端，与他们之间存在着重要的知识差异。我要引用的一封信中有十页是长篇密稿，要写出来，她首先必须仔细，仔细地阅读，我的一张密集而深奥的纸，看起来像8点字体，今天对我来说几乎是不可读的。现在考虑我只是Meaghan的通讯员之一。我不知道有多少人收到她的来信，但是我很确定她正在与澳大利亚和其他地方的许多人进行书面对话。梅汉（Meaghan）曾经并且是一名老师：她像我所认识的任何人一样认真对待知识分子辩论，并且以谨慎，机智和热情地进行辩论。