[Edit 6/24/13.]
This entry appears in a first subpart on my other blog. The second subpart appears on this
blog; it is in two halves on June 24.
Because of the academically oriented and rather complex story that became
subpart A, it seemed more suitable to put it on my more “select tastes” blog.
Subsections in the first subpart are:
Gass as a “late arrival” among “Sons of Joyce”
My truncated philosophy career: along with its original aims, its
practical consequences
Pursuing creative writing, as my true love, while becoming a professor
was a more practical choice for me
WU’s philosophy program: a very mixed set of exponents of different
schools of thought
A
constellation of professors in which one could appreciate being in the minority
