Section Men
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Fri, 09 Oct 1998 19:35:26 -0400
A "section man," in Franny's conception, is a person--probably a
graduate student--who takes sections for professors who can't teach the
sections themselves someday for whatever reason. The section man, a
picture of solipsism and hot-shotiness, can conduct an oratory of
sufficient density on any given literary topic on a moment's notice. So
professor X could say to his section man, "Hey, Trimmons; I can't do my
2:00 tomorrow--can you whip up something on Auden, and work in a little
Northrop Frye for me?". Trimmons has the seeds of something great in
his head before professor X has finished the last syllable of
"Nortrhop," and he goes and "knocks" Auden for a while, inserting stray
bits of academese from his dissertation and seeming somehow to be at
least one up on Frye. At 9:00 the next morning, he's spanking Jonson
over one knee and riding Dunne on the other.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu