jaguar ads, beatles songs, in-flight magazines, i love the way nohrnberg's papers are all so learned and yet incorporates - everything else. i remember that he wrote, on my thesis application recommendation, (which he read aloud to me when i popped into his office - this is also where "her conscience is big but her concentration is small" came from. under time management.) under research skills: "like me, she thinks everything is evidence."

i am also shaking with laughter at the opening line of this lecture he gave last year at smith college, of which i'm now reading the text: "it's been called to my attention that it's about time for me to repent, which is what my wife really means by retire, and if there's one piece in literature about the perils of retirement, i suppose it's king lear."