tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post115522947933154169..comments2023-10-23T09:10:21.726-07:00Comments on Darwin's California Cat Presents Last Days of My Career as a College Professor: The Incredible Dullness of Dreams....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post-1155234797820205262006-08-10T11:33:00.000-07:002006-08-10T11:33:00.000-07:00first reaction: speaking as someone whose dreams u...first reaction: speaking as someone whose dreams usually include nothing more than a cloud or a sock or a table, i want some of your dreams.<BR/><BR/>second reaction: the theater dream <B>is</B> a teaching dream. you note: <I>A young man in the lobby, obviously a theater employee, said, "You can't go out that way." And then he added, "I'll have to stamp your hand so you can get back in." And I told him that he was saying the wrong thing, that he should just say that we can go out that way but that if we don't get our hand stamped, we can't come back in. And he said, "I have to say what I'm told to say."</I> too many of our students have an answer (no, can't) before they even know the question. you taught the young theater usher that words liberate us against no's and can'ts.<BR/><BR/>third reaction: zero interpretations of the whole robards, jr. thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com