Thursday 12 July 2007

Poetic Licence

Daniel Drezner's wife on academics in fact and fiction:
The reason professors sleep with their students in fiction is because any realistic portrayal of your jobs would bore readers out of their skulls within ten minutes.
As an ex-academic I can attest to that on a stack of exam booklets.

On a side note, ever notice that novels written by English professors are almost invariably about embittered, alcoholic English professors who sleep with their students?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Aside from academics who believe there is only "One True Way"* to interpret classic literature, this pathetic potential prospective** was reason enough to convince my switching majors.

*The phrase "One True Way" is trademarked by the International Coalition of Fascists-In-Denial...and we aren't talking about the river...

**Alliteration, I have not forsaken thee...