Leaving Academe
"Eros says: there is more to life than the life of the Mind. What about your body? Is your body intelligent? What does it know? Are you willing to learn what your body is saying? Are your emotions intelligent?" How can I really claim that I am leaving academe if I’ve not felt that I have arrived and stayed? This strange feeling of not belonging in its hallways, and yet somehow for over two decades I’ve carved out a space within it, I suppose, will always be my koan. The last
