You will often meet with characters in nature so extravagant
that a discrete poet would not venture
to set them upon the stage.
Lord Chesterfield
I am a professor, so I meet extravagant characters all the time
The fellow professor who wants nothing more than to help others learn
or else...
or else...
The student who wants to try their wings
but doesn't quite know yet which way is up
The artist lost in their work
The poet lost in their words
The writer of the Great American Novel...
who may just be losing it
The scientist who has lost it so that the rest of us can find it
They all stroll through academia
A breed unto themselves
And we are all better for it
and that's poetiquejustis
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;
teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 9:9
