July 22, 2005

• Particularity
  continued
  
  
  
  For Louise Fletcher

  on her birthday

  
  
  Fletcher in
  Exorcist II: The Heretic

  From Andrew Delbanco, the author of
  The Death of Satan:
  How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil:

  
  “A couple of years ago, in an article explaining how funds for faculty
  positions are allocated in American universities, the provost of the
  University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to
  department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of
  the budget.  ‘On every campus,’ she wrote, ‘there is one department
  whose name need only be mentioned to make people laugh; you don’t want
  that department to be yours.’  
  The provost, Carol Christ (who retains her faculty position as a
  literature professor), does not name the offender—but everyone knows
  that if you want to locate the laughingstock on your local campus these
  days, your best bet is to stop by the English department.”

  – Andrew Delbanco in
     The New York Review of Books, Nov. 4, 1999

  Christ:

  

  Click on picture for details.

  For Christ in a different context,
  see the 9/11 entry of Log24
  in a September 2003 archive.

  For exorcism in a different context, see
  Exorcism and Multiple Personality Disorder
  from a Catholic Perspective,
  by Fr. J. Mahoney.

  “Got to keep the loonies on the path.”
  – Roger Waters

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