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Few lecturers can keep me awake, but Sabro was one of them—despite his slow, quiet, and pensive way of talking—for every sentence was like an aphorism from Lao-tzu. Sometimes they were formal lectures (invariably crowded) in the main auditorium, sometimes
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
GUY IN HOODIE WALKS INTO CAFE YELLING HIS MANIFESTO AS HE READS OFF HIS LAPTOP. Yikes. Was this really about to happen? In which direction should I dive? Within 10 seconds the staff cuts him off, and it seems like they’ve dealt with him before. At some point I hear, “I’d never hurt anyone, I just gotta say this.” Part of me wants to never go back t
... See moreMy enormous Form of Fiction class, which has grown to about 80 students, and which is still growing, thanks to late registrants, is being broken up into two sections (“A” and “B”—what else?), each meeting for two hours once a week. “A” meets from 3:30 until 5:30 on Tuesday, and “B” meets at the same time on Wednesday. So, from Wednesday at 5:30 unt
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Storytelling
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Storytelling
Lipi Gandhi • 1 card
Each week, I write my required essay and trudge to my tutorial—a one-on-one session with this or that brilliant and eccentric professor, beginning with the offer of sherry and snuff and ending with the strong suspicion that nothing we’ve just discussed applies to the real world.