[lit-ideas] Re: Not a Transom Tale


On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
David's clipping of the tribulations of Mayor Carmen Kontur- Gronquist would have been much more interesting had there been a picture. Could have saved a thousand salacious words. 

There was one.  Just click on the link.
David's tale about trying to get into the dance studio strikes me as a personal problem. I don't know about you people, but I've got troubles of my own. I don't need his. Why, just yesterday I...ah, forget it.
Well here's a personal problem I don't have. I'm just back from touring Reed College. The whole walking backwards thing, and seeing buildings inside and out, was bubbling along just fine--apart from the fact that for the first minutes of the presentation I couldn't figure out why a course on classical texts and thought was named after David Hume (the answer is that it's called "Hume," because that's short for "Humanities"; "well surely 'hum' would be short for 'humanities,'" was the riposte that came to mind... but of course I shut up) until we got to the part about professors who are happy to take students' phone calls at two in the morning. I've heard a lot of college sales pitches these past years, but that's a new one on me. Over to you, Robert. How happy would you be if a student telephoned at two in the morning? 

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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