{"id":2066,"date":"2004-06-02T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/06\/02\/2066.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:46:06","slug":"a-list-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/06\/02\/a-list-a-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A list! A list!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger happened across <a href=\"http:\/\/epos1.sequoiap.com\/ePOS?form=shared3\/gm\/browse.html&amp;this_category=67&amp;store=333\">this list<\/a> and thought some of my Gentle Readers would enjoy it. It seems the great Ed Fuller asked members of the Swarthmore faculty to pick one book to recommend to incoming freshfolk, and this is the resulting list. It&#8217;s an interesting list for a variety of reasons, but the one I focused on was the picture it gives of the college. One of the Spanish Dept. profs recommends Don Quixote, but another recommends Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; one physics prof recommends Borges and another Feynman. The accompanying notes combine academic bullshit, political correctness, wry humor, jargon, pretentiousness, helpfulness, defensiveness, and insight. One of the profs mentions that she checked to see if the library had the book before recommending it.\n<p>By the way, the list is posted on the web site of the bookstore, in a section that also encourages students to buy their texts cheaper from overseas retailers, and notes how many students seem to be able to work from library copies. What an odd place Swarthmore is. But that&#8217;s nostalgia talking.\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger happened across this list and thought some of my Gentle Readers would enjoy it. It seems the great Ed Fuller asked members of the Swarthmore faculty to pick one book to recommend to incoming freshfolk, and this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17038,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/17038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}