college daze
so i work on a college campus, right...one thing i like to do is sit (or stand, i guess) on the fringes and listen to people talk...each conversation reminds me of my favorite lines from my third favorite book:
"The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries..."
the other day i wanted so badly to walk up to one guy and say "wow....you're already able to demolish the arguments of kant and locke after one intro to philosophy class...i predict big things for you my fairhaired friend!" but i am still on probation, so to speak....and i can't piss off everyone just yet....
"The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries..."
the other day i wanted so badly to walk up to one guy and say "wow....you're already able to demolish the arguments of kant and locke after one intro to philosophy class...i predict big things for you my fairhaired friend!" but i am still on probation, so to speak....and i can't piss off everyone just yet....