Category Archives: Sewanee

Some Jars in Tennessee

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

In the woods behind my house there is a bunch of junk.  Railroad ties, rusty oil drums, the top of a washing machine with an attached wringer, et cetera, all of it old, haphazardly deposited, and overgrown with moss.  My … Continue reading →

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Testa dell’Efebo

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

Last fall, Humanities magazine published an essay I wrote about the relationship between a poem by Tennessee Williams and a statuette the playwright had once owned, now here in Sewanee.  Both are pasted below. Testa dell’ Efebo Of Flora did … Continue reading →

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Pictures at an Exhibition, or, “The Value-added Potential of Liberal Education”

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

For the Sewanee Faculty Retreat on August 20, 2010, the dean asked me to give a response to a remark in Louis Menand’s The Marketplace of Ideas, our assigned reading, about “the value-added potential of liberal education” (p. 56). I’m … Continue reading →

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