A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Abrasive Desktops: The Intellectual LIfe of a College Town

Abrasive Desktops: The Intellectual LIfe of a College Town

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 04, 2010
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Abrasive Desktops: The Intellectual LIfe of a College Town
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You might suppose that living in a college town, as I did in 2007 and 2008, in Madison, Wisconsin, would have been intellectually stimulating. You might imagine, for instance, that in such atmosphere, one would want to have one of Proust’s novels or Carl Jung’s Modern Man in Search of a Soul on his person, pack animals being illegal within the city limi…

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