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The Groves of Academe, or You Can’t Make It Up, Episode 8,968

November 3, 2007 - 10:46 am - by Roger Kimball
Gus
2007-11-08 10:11:23

I think Laura got it right. I have a friend who got a PhD in German. He said he had to write his dissertation on an obscure writer that most German speakers have never heard of because there’s little new to be said about Goethe, Kafka, etc.