Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Too Late...


If you do a little research online, you will find many entries under the category "Should I Go To Graduate School." They are alternately despairing and comical. Ok, so you're already in grad school. LOL!!!

This, however, is my favorite example of the genre "Should I Go," not least because it deals in ambivalence:

http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2012/11/13/love-in-the-ruins-or-should-i-go-to-grad-school/

In the words of Peter Coviello:

"And then, one day, you encounter something that is outsized and terrible, that devours ardor at the root, and will not be dislodged by even the most venerated of the objects that have for so long nourished you. Language itself, no matter how conceptually rich or steeped in the history of your dearest affections, will seem like the thinnest and most friable of scrims between you and horror. And I promise you, though you may not recognize it at the time, the voices of the people calling you back to a scene of language-making you once inhabited, and back to a self trained in patient discriminations and in the wringing of clarities from messy indistinction – they won’t cure you, these voices, alas. But they will act as a testament and a reminder. You will need both."




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