How College Taught me to Adore all things Fin de Siècle
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How College Taught me to Adore all things Fin de Siècle By David Gottfried For reasons that need not concern us here, I did not go to a highly esteemed University. I hesitate to say this, but I must own up to the school’s weaknesses at the very outset because as the ensuing paragraphs will make clear, the school was no Harvard. Indeed, it was not even close; it was a collection of exceptionally ugly buildings, populated by exceptionally incurious minds, situated in the plains of Long Island. Long Island may be a New York City Subu0rb, but given the flatness of the terrain (A friend of mine who came from more hilly environs described the land mass as a flat-chested woman filled with flat-chested females.), the lack of intellectual effervescence in the student body, and the sorry collection of professors who taught us, we might as well have been in some State in the Western Plains that voted overwhelmingly Republican and received the oratory of Ronald Reagan with orgiastic glee.
How College Taught me to Adore all things Fin de Siècle
How College Taught me to Adore all things Fin…
How College Taught me to Adore all things Fin de Siècle
How College Taught me to Adore all things Fin de Siècle By David Gottfried For reasons that need not concern us here, I did not go to a highly esteemed University. I hesitate to say this, but I must own up to the school’s weaknesses at the very outset because as the ensuing paragraphs will make clear, the school was no Harvard. Indeed, it was not even close; it was a collection of exceptionally ugly buildings, populated by exceptionally incurious minds, situated in the plains of Long Island. Long Island may be a New York City Subu0rb, but given the flatness of the terrain (A friend of mine who came from more hilly environs described the land mass as a flat-chested woman filled with flat-chested females.), the lack of intellectual effervescence in the student body, and the sorry collection of professors who taught us, we might as well have been in some State in the Western Plains that voted overwhelmingly Republican and received the oratory of Ronald Reagan with orgiastic glee.