"We are sensitive machines" - by Jon Repetti

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Last winter, I had a phone call with an old professor. In the decade that’s passed since we first met, he’s become some combination of a friend, colleague, and guru to me. He would hate to be called a guru, but I doubt I’m the only person who thinks of him that way. We’re lucky to have him. I speak with this friend—let’s call him G—once or twice a month, more often when classes are out of session. Our calls have fallen into a pattern over the years. We trade academic gossip, talk shop about essays and syllabi, mourn our respective last-place fantasy teams. And then I ask, apologetically,…

"We are sensitive machines" - by Jon Repetti

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