V for Victory
I’m really excited, I must admit. I just talked Dr. Paul Youngquist into giving a seminar on science fiction(s) next year! This is very exciting for me. I’ve been sick, for too long, of having to play catch-up with my peers who specialize in things that are taught in “the academy” (modernism, Milton, etc.) or standing as the token science fiction scholar and having to answer facial questions about SF (as Paul mentioned, “now you know what it feels like to be black” (which I don’t want to touch with a ten foot pole)). So, this is big and exciting news. I also found out he’s writing a book on SF at the moment. It’s nice to talk to people about Delany and Burroughs and have them be able to cogently respond about the fictions themselves and not just nod and say things like “He wrote Naked Lunch, right? That’s a novel about heroin, right?”
The problem, now, though is that I have to find a way to convince around five people to take this class. I think I can get my roommate, Dan, interested and possibly a few other people who enjoy the “Paul Youngquist Show” in seminar. Anyway, so now that I’m all excited about taking a literature seminar next year, I’m going to go back to Paul de Man talking pedagogy and hopefully staying awake.
