Forget the professor's name, looked every bit the English professor. He said that everyone reads "The Great Gatsby" in high school so he skipped that and gave us "The Sound and the Fury." "The Sun Also Rises," Dos Passos's "The 42nd Parallel," the first of his "U.S.A." trilogy, (the trilogy is superb, unique, very highly recommended), and "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Damn. This was when we had terms, not semesters. Also extensively covered American poets, I got turned on to e.e. cummings, Robinson, and Frost (I can still recite "After Apple Picking": "I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight/ I got from looking through a pane of glass / I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough / And held against the world of hoary grass. / It melted, and I let it fall and break / But I was well / Upon my way to sleep before it fell / And I could tell / What form my dreaming was about to take.")
I wasn't able to graduate PSU (I wasn't tough enough or aware enough at the time), but, as you can see, I got a hell of a lot out of my time there. I'm very grateful.
I wasn't able to graduate PSU (I wasn't tough enough or aware enough at the time), but, as you can see, I got a hell of a lot out of my time there. I'm very grateful.
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