Usually a little vague
"The technician and the sophomore who loves his textbook are always offended by the genuine research man because the latter is usually a little vague and always humble before the thing; he doesn't have much use for the equipment or the jargon."
Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature, 1954.
(i think i'm going to assimilate my quote page into the main blog, because i have a suspicion that the quotes generally get ignored, while the blog is occasionally read--which really gets things entirely backwards (do i have better things to say than lewis or leibniz?). i may eventually do the same with the poems.)
Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature, 1954.
(i think i'm going to assimilate my quote page into the main blog, because i have a suspicion that the quotes generally get ignored, while the blog is occasionally read--which really gets things entirely backwards (do i have better things to say than lewis or leibniz?). i may eventually do the same with the poems.)
Posted by Jeff on Friday, January 27, 2006
2 Comments:
Percy's stuff is interesting. I taught him last semester for Freshman comp. My students hated him, though.
I'm afraid I never peek at the quotes because I guess assume they're static. apparently not! So please do ask the quotes to meander on over.
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