Description: This memoir records the story of the author's personal
journey toward a life of university teaching and probes that story
in reflective essays on a variety of subjects. One group of essays
has to do with the characteristic activities and institutional
setting of a professor. Other essays explore ways of experiencing
the world as mysterious, beautiful, and tragic. One piece offers a
rather somber account of current ways in which the American
experiment in democracy is in peril. Scraps of what looks like an
intellectual autobiography are scattered over the pages of the
narrative, recalling the puzzles that gave rise to a number of
writing projects. In a way this is a book of paradoxes and
antitheses. Janus-like, it faces toward the past and the future. It
offers generalized convictions and specific observations, treats
both the ordinary themes of life experience and tangled esoterica,
and presents both the experiences of an individual and an analysis
of educational institutions. As a whole, the book invites readers
to join the author in ""thinking about things.""
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