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riftsh at 05:46pm on 11/10/2011
riftsh at 05:46pm on 11/10/2011В вышедшем сегодня романе Джефри Юджинидеса "The Marriage Plot" объясняется, почему один из героев, профессор литературы Майкл Циперстайн, в расцвете карьеры бросил свою специальность и начал заниматься семиотическими исследованиями:
"Semiotics was the form Zipperstein's midlife crisis had taken. Becoming a semiotician allowed Zipperstein to wear a leather jacket, to fly off to Douglas Sirk retrospectives in Vancouver, and to get all the sexy waifs in his classes. Instead of leaving his wife, Zipperstein had left the English department. Instead of buying a sports car, he'd bought deconstruction."
Недаром я в детстве хотел стать семиотиком.
"Semiotics was the form Zipperstein's midlife crisis had taken. Becoming a semiotician allowed Zipperstein to wear a leather jacket, to fly off to Douglas Sirk retrospectives in Vancouver, and to get all the sexy waifs in his classes. Instead of leaving his wife, Zipperstein had left the English department. Instead of buying a sports car, he'd bought deconstruction."
Недаром я в детстве хотел стать семиотиком.
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Saunders was a seventy-nine-year-old New Englander. He had a long, horsey face and a moist laugh that exposed his gaudy dental work. His pedagogical method consisted of his reading aloud lectures he'd written twenty or thirty years earlier...