German Undergraduates With a Taste for Autobiography
November 17, 2005
“I think that this feigning, this ceaseless pretense of interest in matters to me supremely boring, was what wore me out more than anything else. If the reader will picture himself, unarmed, shut up for thirteen weeks on end, night and day, in a society of fanatical golfers — or, if he is a golfer himself, let him substitute fishermen, theosophists, bimetallists, Baconians, or German undergraduates with a taste for autobiography — who all carry revolvers and will probably shoot him if he ever seems to lose interest in their conversation, he will have an idea of my school life.”
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Surprised by Joy, 1956
Comments
HoB1KenOB
I never knew anyone felt the same way I felt…But now that I think about it, there may have been a C.S. Lewis who sat two desks behind me in Physical Science.
swift
A precise description of my educational experience from the time I entered kindergarten in 1964 until my latest romp amongst the circles of hell, soon to end next month. If I mention graduate school again, please shoot me.