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I Think Most Of The Things I Published Have Been Published Out Of Desperation, Not Because They Were Perfected.

John Updike Is Always Fun. And One Of My Former Students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, Another Former Student.

When I Was A Graduate Student, The Leading Spirits At Harvard Were Interested In The History Of Ideas.

The Theories Of The Major Philosophers Of The 18th Century Secular Enlightenment Were Biblical And Theological In Spite Of Themselves.

We Worked On Solving The Problem Of Voice Communications In A Noisy Military Environment. We Established Military Codes That Are Highly Audible And Invented Selection Tests For Personnel Who Had A Superior Ability To Recognize Sound In A Noisy Background.