I liked this:
During a meeting of Cornell’s literature department to decide the fate of Nabokov’s tenure, one of the professors objected by saying that allowing a writer to be a part of a literature department is not unlike letting an elephant to be a zookeeper. This is to prove that established professors could still have a good insight once in a while. Indeed: professors are zookeepers, keeping in orderly cages specimens of untamed life for all to look at from a safe distance.
Sometimes I feel like I’m just a clever ape.
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