University Diaries
A professor of English describes American university life.
A professor of English describes American university life.
March 29, 2009 - 7:55pm
Each suicide writes a new life storyWith obvious portents like something out of Dreiser Or like the junior high school poem Richard Corey,Where, once he's done it, we're so much wiserTo the heavy-foreshadowed script;The way the doomed life simply slippedFrom one heavy-handed plot point to another.
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March 23, 2009 - 8:55am
Go wrapYour head in the snowy riversOf the Brooks Range.
And that's what Nicholas Hughes did. His father, Ted Hughes, in his bitter poem, "The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother," advised his children to "leave her," leave Plath to the literary beasts feeding off her myth, and escape into their own lives.
March 16, 2009 - 12:48pm
Bernard d'Espagnat, a French physicist/philosopher, has won this year's one million dollar Templeton Prize, given to thinkers who attempt to reconcile religious belief and science.
d'Espagnat's ideas are intriguing enough that UD would like to feature them in a series of posts today, especially his claim that
February 24, 2009 - 5:01pm
Rule One: Never make your reader laugh when she's not supposed to.SUNY Binghamton got blasted in the New York Times for running a typically scummy Division I basketball team. Big deal. Tell it to Auburn. SUNY should have ignored it. No one cares.
February 3, 2009 - 9:22pm
Bernard Madoff is a classic Mafia-style gangster. He comes from gangsters - his mother was a crook. Investigators are looking into his father-in-law. A lot of his friends and investors are crooks. He was born a crook, has always been a crook.
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