snap!

[adelaidesean]

Of his experience studying English at university level, Garry Disher says (in the latest issue of Lumen, the University of Adelaide Alumni Magazine):

"I hated it. Back then I was already keen on becoming a writer, and it seemed to me that English was going to ruin my love of reading and books. I found the analysis of the novels we were reading too academic, too difficult, and in some respects wrong-headed. But I was just a kid, what did I know? I wasn't ready for that way of looking at literature."

I had the same experience at high school. It feels very weird to be a PhD candidate now.

(Received my first knock-back for a conference paper the other day. It didn't occur to me that by entering this world I'd be opening myself to rejections from a whole new sector!)

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Listening to: Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - How Close Your Soul

Comments

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Lawd. I can safely say that I've seen little evidence of this kind of behaviour at the U of A, so maybe you should come down here and teach. :-)

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear! Perhaps your subcontinent has actually ducked that particular bullet.

I'd gladly move to Australia if it weren't for the fact that every living thing on the damn subcontinent is poisonous in some way or another. Plus, I'd never get to see Devo again if I lived there.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Just got my tickets for the August 5 show. Woohoo!

Hopefully they survive the tour.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Whoops. Wrong account and wrong userpic!

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

Oh, SNAP! I forgot that Devo is coming to Australia!

OK, that cinches it. I'm going to seriously consider changing hemispheres. Plus, being closer to Japan and China means a better chance of riding the first wave of the Singularity!