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Tsomides has lingering doubts about his future--he's still not sure he wants to spend his life in a lab, and he "hopes" he made the "right decision" in accepting the Marshall. "The main temptation is to devote oneself to totally achieving goals. I guess I get caught up in that...
...whether to blame themselves for making bad decisions or the University for letting them do so. I suspect that while most would fault Harvard publicly, they secretly perceive themselves as having taller short of the mark. This is the logical result of having made a lot of decisions by oneself...
Perhaps the 20th century is merely one of the moping-dog phases. It may be the sin of pride to claim so much evil and despair for oneself. The Black Death killed off one-third of Western and Central Europe in the 14th century, but in the Emersonian calendar of the perfectible universe, it was only a temporary epidemic - something that was going around...
...through it all, the Crimson linksters keep swinging away at that elusive mark known as a good round. The sport is a test of individual mettle, and performance against oneself, and can differ day to day depending on mental attitudes, timing and externalities like the weather. The team anticipates a good performance at this weekend's Ivy tournament, and is looking further ahead to capturing the NCAA regional title, scheduled for late April...
...does quite get back to his original point. His reflections on pessimism and nihilism--including 22 "broken notes" on Beckett that read like parody of a precocious diary--bring him to the literary theory sometimes called "narrative-men," which holds that one's escape from meaninglessness is to consider oneself the narrative voice in a story that is one's life. The point, though provocative, sheds little light on political actions; likewise, the chapters evoking the despair in the face of 60s turmoil, fail to integrate literature convincingly and remain just another 60s dirge...