“That’s what writing is good for. Taking the big mess of experience and thought and trying to impose a coherence on your life. If your writing has an autobiographical element, then it becomes an attempt almost to create a work of art out of a life that while you’re in it always feels fixated on the future or regrets about the past. To bring it into view as a kind of whole that makes sense, I guess that’s the task of living altogether” (from Matthew B. Crawford’s interview with Ryan Holiday).
I enjoyed the read! I sense that at a place such as Oxford, labels or titles for people might be very important. In your text, you mention: graduate students, porters, scouts, the dons,
the bursar, the senior tutor, the dean, the warden - all the actors on the stage. On the other hand, maybe it is just my K-8 work environment, mostly limited to students and teachers.
Labels and titles were important and they typically came with certain privileges or access to certain resources. I was warned early on that I was being too friendly with the porters (but the warning came from my housemate/boyfriend who had supposedly heard it from the Tutor for English, so I was skeptical).
I enjoyed the read! I sense that at a place such as Oxford, labels or titles for people might be very important. In your text, you mention: graduate students, porters, scouts, the dons,
the bursar, the senior tutor, the dean, the warden - all the actors on the stage. On the other hand, maybe it is just my K-8 work environment, mostly limited to students and teachers.
Labels and titles were important and they typically came with certain privileges or access to certain resources. I was warned early on that I was being too friendly with the porters (but the warning came from my housemate/boyfriend who had supposedly heard it from the Tutor for English, so I was skeptical).
Certain privileges or access to certain resources - such as the wine cellar!!
You have away with words! It makes for a very interesting story to say the least