my motives

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 4 13:05:35 PDT 2001


You definitely got the best end of the deal. I wouldn't take a library of Derrida for a line of Horace (and I don't even know Latin anymore). --jks

BUT...I still
>had to
>make it through graduate school...without becoming a deconstructionist. So,
>I thought I'd take the scholarly path instead. I learned Latin and Greek
>and decided to present myself on the job market as a Renaissance scholar
>rather than a deconstructionist young turk. It didn't work so far as my
>academic "career" was concerned, but now, 15 years later, I have no regrets
>about the fact that instead of cramming my head full of deconstructionist
>hocus pocus, I actually learned two languages and read some real and very
>beautiful poetry: Sappho, Catullus, Ovid, Horace, Homer, etc.
>
>Joanna Bujes
>
>
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