> Academicians can be quite honest about this. The year before I went on
the job market, NOBODY from U. C. Berkeley got a job. The Profs heading
the placement committee were Stephen Greenblatt and another pomo guy whose
name I forget. When asked by the distressed grad students how a top-notch
English department could fail to place any students, the profs pulled on
their silk ties, cleared their throats, and said that the problem was that
the candidates had not bee "sexy enough." (They meant theory sexy, not
sexually sexy.) Nobody objected to this; nobody said a word.
Joanna
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Theory is the Viagra of the academic class. Blame Freud.
At least it's more interesting a metaphor than *being dead serious*.
Ian