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adelaideseanOf 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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"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
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Date: 2008-06-19 01:23 am (UTC)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!