Saturday, December 19, 2009

Testing 1, 2, 3

"Who would test me?"

That's what George Lyman Kittredge, Harvard professor of Shakespeare, quipped when asked why he didn't have a Ph.D. Right. He knew more on the subject than anyone: who indeed would test him?

The professors in my graduate English department at NYU proved incapable of testing me. I freely admit that I might have proved incapable of testing them on some idea they are inspired by but that I am opaque to.

God can test us at Judgment, but who's to test God's competence to do so?
Nested incapacities may be infinite.

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