The Gift Half-Understood

      As The Preacher said, there is nothing new under the sun.... In my experience, it was as much about unlearning what the poor kids had drilled into them in their high-school days.... As Rodney Dangerfield says in Back to School, lusting after his English professor played by Sally Kellerman: "I like teachers. You do something wrong, they make you do it again."

      (Pardon this blog an unbelievably childish moment: Gene. Bottoms.      So much for Darwinism....)