Posted by Roger Boylan on Wednesday, October 13, 2010
From The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson, a passage that describes to perfection my own university career:
"He’d been a modular, bits-and-pieces man at university, not studying
anything recognizable as a subject but fitting components of different
arts-related disciplines, not to say indisciplines, together like Lego
pieces. Archaeology, Concrete Poetry, Media and Communications, Festival
and Theatre Administration, Comparative Religion, Stage Set and Design,
the Russian Short Story, Politics and Gender. On finishing his studies —
and it was never entirely clear when and whether he had
finished his studies, on account of no one at the university being
certain how many modules made a totality — Treslove found himself with a
degree so unspecific that all he could do with it was accept a graduate
traineeship at the BBC."