I spent the afternoon reading Langston Hughes poems (for a paper I have to write in two weeks), and wow. He’s apparently pretty Communist. Interesting. But then there’s this great anti-academic one (Hughes went to Columbia for a while, but hated it):

Ph.D.
He never was a silly little boy
Who whispered in the class [...]

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So, I’m in Abilene for the Christianity and Literature Conference. There are four or so grad students from Baylor up here (three of us staying together), plus three or four faculty members giving presentations, so it’s been really great to be able to get to know some of them a bit better. We’ve [...]

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A little more on how I’m not a good academic.
I just finished reading a chapter in the same book on libraries (they’re getting into the nitty gritty of where to locate the best bibliographies and which research libraries have the best collections of specific authors and eras), and they’re going on and on about the [...]

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I don’t think I’m going to make a very good academic. Good thing I already suspected that and didn’t sign up for the PhD program.
There’s an elitism that just about falls off the page of even the small amount of scholarly writing I’ve read, and especially from the introductory textbook we’re using in Bibliograpy [...]

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