Portrait of Warren in Graduate School

The Duke Way It was a splendid mind. For if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like the alphabet is ranged in twenty-six letters all in order, then his splendid mind had no sort of difficulty in running over those letters one by one, firmly and accurately, unitil it had reached, say, the letter Q. Very few people in the whole of England ever reach Q. . . . But after Q? What comes next? After Q there are a number of letters the last of which is scarcely visible to moral eyes, but glimmers red in the distance. Z is only reached once by one man in a generation. Still, if he could reach R it would be something. Here at least was Q. He dug his heels in at Q. Q he was sure of. Q he could demonstrate. If Q then is Q--R--Here he knocked his pipe out, with two or three resonant taps on the handle of the urn, and proceeded. "Then R . . ." He braced himself. --from Woolf's To the Lighthouse

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A Dystopian Taxonomy of Graduate Student Phenotypes

Phenotype	Sartorial Semiotics	Turn Ons	Turn Offs
Marxy Boys (aka "Fred Heads)	Cite "use value" as an excuse to dress the way they did in junior high. Jeans, t-shirts. He-man proletariat stuff	Women who do gender studies but prefer traditional, emotionally crippled men	Any emotion other than a prim rage
Queer Theory Crowd	These people define "glamor"	San Francisco or New York	Any where else
Cultural Feminists	Oat Dresses, Flannel Shirts, or Strawberry Shortcake	Gynocentricity, The Moral Highground	Any developments in gender theory after 1978
French Feminists	La Petit Objet	E'criture feminine Jouissance	Effluvia
Lacanians	The Phallus	The Phallus	Sharing the Phallus
Know-Nothings	Basic Bourgeoise	Formalism, Same Ol' Same Ol'	Prentension and Ambition
Gender Freaks	Queer Glam Lite Leather	Perversity	Gender Reifications
New Traditonalists	British Landed Gent & Amatuer Scholar. Lots of Tweed.	Matthew Arnold	Theory