Professor Richard A. Garner
The Human Situation, April 15th, 2020
Outline
I. The Best Title in All of Literature
II. Misery Like a Coastal Shelf
III. The Injury of Intelligence, the Insult of an Education
A. Intelligence is a curse
B. A Martyr to the Desire of the Other; or, that St. Sebastian Painting One More Time
C. The Terror of Identity; or, Meeting Yourself Coming and Going
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Absalom, Absalom! 