October 14, 2007

None come close

These desks are supposedly messy. None come even close to the masterpiece that was the desk of Bill Keefe. If he sat in his chair, you could not see him behind the piles of articles. And they were not stacked neatly, either. They might have looked like they would topple, except that there were so many, they formed a range of self-reinforcing support. On the other hand, if you asked him for an article he referred you to read, he could magically extend his hand, seemingly at random, into the pile, and on the first try, extract exactly what he was looking for. Of all the people I took classes from, even though his field was outside the scope of my dissertation, I still remember what he said in classes, his encouragements, and his questions on my comps (!). He was the man who convinced me I could teach.

So much for tidy desks.

Posted by binky at October 14, 2007 12:25 AM | TrackBack | Posted to The Academy


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